Tillage
The latest European Union (EU) harvest update for 2025 reflects a continent that has been divided in two regarding rain availability
Tillage farmers are entering the business time of the year with key management decisions required for both winter and spring crops.
Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) representative, Bobby Miller, has characterised the spring of 2025 as a perfect planting season.
N.Ireland
Tillage farmers in Northern Ireland are reporting excellent germination rates and plant counts in spring cereal crops that were established.
Agricultural contractor, Darren Russell, is confirming that the 2024 spring planting and grass cutting seasons are now well underway
Herbicide resistant meadow grasses could pose a threat to future weed control, according to Teagasc research scientist, Vijaya Bhaskar.
Teagasc advisors are indicating that most tillage farmers will stick with the winter crops that they already have in the ground.
Tillage farmers have until Friday of this week (January 5 ) to participate in Teagasc's spring cereal planting survey.
Tillage Technical
There is a range of decisions relating to spring crops that farmers must make over the coming days
Early March-sown spring barley crops will not require an aphicide. However, those drilled later in the month will.
Teagasc is confirming that most spring crops for 2023 were planted out at the beginning of March, prior to the onset of the heavy rains
The port of Constanta on Romania’s Black Sea coast has, increasingly, been used as a location for grain exports from across Eastern Europe.
Tillage News
Production of cereals increased by 22% during 2021, according to new data released today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
According to data from the 2017 Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) approximately 6,000 tillage farmers were obligated under the two and three-crop rule.
Spring oilseed rape may be an option this spring, as tillage farmers make up for the ground that they had planned on sowing in the autumn.
