Tillage
The Department of Agriculture is working on requests from farmers to withdraw or amend their Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) applications.
The IGGG has called for support, warning “if the tillage sector keeps dwindling away, the livestock sector will follow”.
Agri-Business
Permission for earlier mowing of riparian areas has been welcomed by the ICSA, though it said that more action is needed.
Teagasc has advised farmers to secure straw supplies amid a reported increase in demand in the south-east.
The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) has confirmed the availability of high quality straw as a valuable fodder source
Weather permitting, the much anticipated 2026 spring barley harvest will get underway later today (August 17) in Co. Mayo.
Ireland’s main farming bodies have welcomed the enhanced commitment from government to the 2026 Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM).
Agriculture minister, Martin Heydon, has come under increased pressure to pay 2026 Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) applications in full.
Straw
With significant warm weather spells over the last month, many farmers across the country may be...
Teagasc tillage specialists have confirmed that Donegal straw has a unique selling point: it is free from herbicide resistant grass weeds
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.
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.
