N.Ireland
Spring planting now well underway in south Antrim
The 2024 spring planting and grass-cutting season is now well underway in the south Antrim area, according to one agricultural...
Maize
Tillage
Spring 2024 planting - the contractors’ perspective
Contractors play a key role on most tillage farms. This principle has been further endorsed during the spring 2024 planting...
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How to avoid costly calf registration errors
Are you wondering how you can avoid costly calf registration errors and Bord Bia penalties? As the busy spring season...
Agri-Business
FAO Food Price Index: Meat and cereal prices rise in April
The benchmark for world food commodity prices edged higher in April, as rising meat prices and modest upticks for vegetable...
Agri-Business
EU agrees new limits for certain grain imports from Ukraine
The European Union has reached a provisional agreement to renew the suspension of duties and quotas on food imports from...
Tillage
Tillage: Outlook promising for forage maize in 2024
While most Irish cereal crops struggled throughout 2023, the opposite turned out to be the case for forage maize. Maizetech’s...
Agri-Business
FAO Food Price Index: Wheat and maize prices fall in November
The benchmark for world food commodity prices was broadly stable in November, with lower international cereal quotations offset by higher...
Agri-Business
How irrigation is sustaining agriculture in Spain
Irrigation has been the determining factor in the success of harvesting crops in the region of Aragón in northeastern Spain...
Tillage
Fodder beet: One of the few good news stories for tillage in 2023
Teagasc is confirming that 2023 will be a good year for Irish fodder beet growers. This is assuming that they...
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Where might trees fit for a sustainable future?
The Teagasc Forestry One to One Clinics facilitate a discussion on where trees might fit for a sustainable future. Teagasc...
Tillage News
Kerry company part of €4.9m EU project on climate-resilient cereals
A Kerry-based company is among an international consortium working on a €4.9 million EU project aiming to create climate-resilient cereals....
Tillage
Tillage: It is feasible to undersow forage maize crops with grass?
A trial carried out at Severn Trent’s biogas farm in Nottingham in the UK has confirmed that it is feasible...
Tillage
US tillage farming 'performing well', despite recent challenges
Co. Laois native, Brian Caldbeck, has confirmed that tillage farming in the United States (US) has performed reasonably well over...
Tillage Technical
US maize harvest gathering momentum
An Irish native, who has set up a seed business in Kentucky has confirmed that the maize harvest in the...
Agri-Business
FAO: Decline in dairy and meat prices offset by gains in sugar
The overall measure of international food commodity prices was broadly stable in September, with declines in quotations for vegetable oils,...
Tillage
Forage maize being delivered into yards for €70-75/t
Significant quantities of forage maize are now available for delivery into yards for prices that range between €70-75/t, according to merchants....
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Watch: Importance of transition period & early lactation
A focus on management and nutrition during the transition period makes all the difference to performance in the next lactation. ...
Tillage
First cuts of forage maize are in the pit
This week has seen the first crops of forage maize harvested in Co. Wexford, and Maizetech’s John Foley is confirming...
Tillage
Tillage: Dash for harvest finishing line this week
With the weather slightly improving over the coming days, many tillage farmers will be making a dash for the harvest...
Tillage
Sales of maize seed increase by 25%
Maizetech is confirming an approximate 25% increase in the sale of maize seed, year-on-year. And crops are looking well. The...
N.Ireland
90% of Northern Ireland winter barley crop yet to be harvested
Co. Down cereal grower Allan Chambers has confirmed that 90% of Northern Ireland’s winter barley crop has yet to be...