Tillage
Boortmalt adjusts protein limits
Boortmalt has adjusted its malting barley protein specifications for this year’s harvest. Malting barley supplied to the company can now...
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Boortmalt has adjusted its malting barley protein specifications for this year’s harvest. Malting barley supplied to the company can now...
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The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) has called on grain merchants to offer a minimum of €200/t for Irish feed...
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The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has concluded negotiations with Boortmalt following a meeting today. A revised malting barley pricing structure...
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Malting barley farmers were made a fixed-price offer of €188/t yesterday (Monday, June 25) – by Boortmalt – for their...
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The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) and Boortmalt are due to meet tomorrow to discuss the pricing structure for malting barley...
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Stradbally Town and Country will provide a grain intake for Boortmalt in Co. Laois this year. Growers from the Laois...
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A new pricing structure for grain growers supplying Boortmalt was announced at an IFA (Irish Farmers’ Association) malting barley meeting...
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Boortmalt plans to expand its intake of malting barley from 125,000t to 175,000t by 2019. This extra barley will be...
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Whiskey exports, Irish feed rations and the benefits that the tillage sector brings for the environment are just some of...
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The IFA’s (Irish Farmers’ Association’s) Malting Barley Committee has called growers to meetings this week and next week. It is...
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Boortmalt is broadening its growing area. With the expansion of its plant in Athy, Co. Kildare to go ahead this...
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The recommended list for malting barley was reintroduced in 2011 and growers and malsters are seeing the benefits. The list...
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It wouldn’t be an Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) meeting without the price of malting barley being discussed. The group...
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Boortmalt’s malting barley package for 2018 has been agreed. The Irish Farmers’ Association’s (IFA’s) deputy president, Richard Kennedy, described the...
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The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) took its protest inside the Guinness Storehouse on Monday (December 4). The IGGG has...
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The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) will return to the Guinness Storehouse next Monday (December 4) to stage another demonstration....
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Each year Boortmalt reward the growers of the best malting barley in Ireland. Edward Mulhall, from Laois, is the winner...
Opinion
This week’s Oireachtas report on the future of Irish tillage was extremely timely. However, in my opinion, it failed to...