Dairy
2025 was a good year for straw production following a tough two years prior, but droughts in the UK and SIM have still reduced availability.
Rural Life
Gardaí have confirmed that a man was taken to hospital this week after a truck carrying straw overturned on a road in Co. Louth
N.Ireland
More than 30 firefighters attended the scene of a large fire involving around 300 tonnes of straw, which had broken out at a barn in the UK.
Tillage
Increasing numbers of Irish livestock farmers – north and south - now include precision chopped Spanish straw in the diets fed to their cows
Growers in Northern Ireland are confirming second wheat yields in the region of 3.5t/ac at around 16% moisture.
Fire crews were alerted to a serious machinery fire, involving a combine harvester in the Suffolk...
The extremely dry conditions experienced for most of the 2024/25 growing season will impact crop nutrient offtakes: potash is one of these.
A significant number of tillage farmers may wish to withdraw some fields from the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM).
Co Derry merchant, Robert Miller is confirming that straw availability on the island of Ireland is very strong at the present time.
Harvest 2025 got underway this week with combines reported operating in parts of Tipperary, Cork and Waterford.
It's not great to be talking about the winter months and we are only at the start of July but farmers should begin to prepare themselves...
Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon announced that all applicants for the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) have been accepted.
Tillage News
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) has confirmed nearly 28,000t of straw has been imported into Ireland over the past two years.
Although the good back end to the year has seen somewhat of a relief to fodder supplies across the country, shortages and the fear of...
Payments worth €4.8 million have commenced issuing to farmers today (Wednesday, December 11) under the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM)
Selling straw and hay on a per bale basis does not convey to farmer customers the full details of what they are actually buying.
%%excerpt%% A 25 year-old woman from rural south Kerry, between the villages of Castlecove and Caherdaniel, has overseen the construction of her own environmentally friendly straw panel new build house by direct labour, without a mortgage.
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) said 14,800t of straw was imported into Ireland from the UK up to July 31 this year
The fact that the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) will stay the same is a "relief" according to the chair of the Irish Grain Growers Group.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has released further information about the new scheme for baling straw this year.
Teagasc has recently published figures, which put a financial value on chopped straw that is returned to the soil
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) confirmed that farmers will have to supply geotagged photos to claim the straw baling scheme payment.
The ICSA has urged livestock farmers to liaise with tillage farmers following the announcement that the SIM will proceed this year.
