Agri-Business
Grain price: Unsettled, but not going to jump anywhere fast
Unsettled might be a word to describe grain markets this week. LIFFE wheat (November and May) climbed all week from...
Agri-Business
Unsettled might be a word to describe grain markets this week. LIFFE wheat (November and May) climbed all week from...
Tillage
The wet weather has left many people under pressure to get tillage crops cut around the country, particularly in the...
Tillage
Mushroom composters have recognised the importance of a local straw supply, following last year’s shortage, and are proposing contracts to...
Tillage
The winter barley harvest has started. John C Byrne, pictured above (on the left), was cutting Pixel winter barley on...
Tillage
Hands Free Hectare (HFH) is the world’s first ever hectare of cereals produced using autonomous machinery. Earlier this year – at...
Tillage
Teagasc estimates that cereal production in this country will be reduced by 690,000t in 2018, a 29% drop from 2017...
Tillage
Grain price is recovering from a significant drop over the past week. Having climbed and hovered since the beginning of...
Tillage
Futures grain prices remain within a relatively steady range. On Wednesday, they had climbed the scale to last week’s levels. Meanwhile, planting...
Tillage
It doesn’t take Albert Einstein to work out that cereal crops have recovered tremendously over recent weeks. Sowing conditions, in...
N.Ireland
Potato farmers say they are experiencing one of the “worst harvests ever” with many warning their crops are rotting in...
Tillage
This week Dairygold has finalised its cereal prices for harvest 2017, with prices remaining “sluggish” due to another “large global...
Tillage
The harvest is ongoing in the north-east of the country at present. Spring crops such as barley, wheat, oats, oilseed rape...
Tillage
Maize harvesters have taken to the fields early this year, with machines out and about in the south of the...
Tillage
Spring barley has just started to be harvested, according to a number of grain merchants around the country. However, combines...
Tillage
As the harvest progresses, oaten and wheaten straw has now come on the scene. Merchants around the country are reporting...
Tillage
Prices for 4X4 round bales of straw are ranging from €10 to €15/bale across the country, a review of DoneDeal has shown....
Rural Life
The cooler and fresher weather expected over the coming days will provide ideal conditions for the hard labour of the...
Tillage
Winter barley yields have been a mixed bag and yields have ranged from 3t/ac up to 4.25t/ac so far this...