Beef
Barley is often the amongst the main ingredients of the beef cattle finisher rations used on Irish...
Tillage
Teagasc is confirming that harvest yields in 2025 came back to levels that would be deemed more normal in terms of their overall value.
The Irish Grain Growers Group has issued a Christmas message, which puts Irish oats at the very centre of Yuletide greeting
Oats have never been considered much of an option for finishing beef cattle, as rolled barley has always been considered the answer.
Recent weeks have been marked by Teagasc highlighting the fact that oats remain one of Ireland’s most reliable tillage crops.
Teagasc has produced an ‘oats factsheet’, which summaries the role this unique cereal can play within Irish beef finishing systems.
The Agricultural and Horticultural and Development Board (AHDB) has launched its 2026/2027 recommended lists of cereals and oilseeds online.
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) is projecting a significant fall-off in demand for malting barley.
Agri-Business
The FSAI has issued a recall notice for a batch of Dunnes Stores Organic Porridge Oats due to the possible presence of clear plastic pellets.
The latest edition of Teagasc’s 'Tillage Edge' podcast focuses on the outcome of the 2025 harvest and the subsequent autumn planting season.
Irish Seed Trade Association president, Tim O’Donovan, is indicating that the autumn planting season could continue until early December
AHDB is projecting an almost 30% increase in the UK’s planted area of oilseed rape for 2025/26, relative to the previous year
Teagasc has just published its 2025 autumn crop planting estimates in tandem with the end-of-season harvest figures.
Teagasc has just published its 2025 Harvest Report, covering all of the combinable crops grown in Ireland, including oilssed rape and beans
The Scottish government has published its first production estimates for Harvest 2025, covering: barley, wheat, oats and oilseed rape.
According to the director general of the IGFA, Maeve Whyte, native grain is vital for the country’s feed sector
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has gone public with its final UK Harvest 2025 report.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has published the list of recommended winter oat varieties for the 2025/26 season.
Unexpectedly low straw pries are putting further pressure on tillage incomes at the present time. Reportedly, 4x4 bales are making just €20
A new AHDB report has highlighted the continuing "extreme variability" in 2025 harvest yields across the UK.
N.Ireland
Estimated at 207,000ha, the UK’s oat planted area for 2025 is up 13% year-on-year and now sits at the highest level since 2020.
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) has published its latest crop development report for the UK.
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) scientists are assessing a range of new cropping options that perform well in Northern Ireland.
