Tillage
Buying oilseed rape straw? Ask what herbicide it received
Many farmers may be considering buying rape straw for animal feed or bedding. If so, they should ask the supplier...
Tillage
Many farmers may be considering buying rape straw for animal feed or bedding. If so, they should ask the supplier...
Tillage
The “absolutely mental demand” for straw at the moment was captured in a recent video posted on social media by...
Beef
With a shortage of fodder on many farms, straw is being looked at as a crucial fibre source for the...
Tillage
Over the past two weeks, combines began to roll and bales could be seen dotted all over the country, as...
Rural Life
Farmers and agricultural contractors are being urged to take extreme caution in relation to field fire hazards during this year’s...
Tillage
Following a reduction in the cereal area, struggling spring crops and an increase in the acreage of forage crops, it’s...
Machinery
An eagle-eyed AgriLand reader came across this video (see below) recently. What caught his eye was the way in which a haulier...
Tillage
A significant decrease in straw availability looks likely this harvest. While the cereal crop area is down, the straw yield...
Tillage
It appears that the demand for straw has decreased and prices have dropped back in most parts of the country....
Tillage
Baling straw in February isn’t the norm. However, many tillage farmers were wrapping up the 2017 harvest at the weekend....
Rural Life
A tractor that was drawing a trailer loaded with bales of straw struck a bridge in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, recently....
Tillage
The Irish tillage sector has experienced significant challenges over the past number of years, according to Teagasc’s Prof. Gerry Boyle....
Tillage
Straw prices have remained steady over the past number of weeks. It has been just over a month since AgriLand‘s...
Tillage
The Owens brothers are part of a family which has been trading straw for three generations from their farm outside...
Tillage
Straw prices, while still high, have come down slightly. More straw seems to be available on the market at present....
Tillage
As the winter draws in, straw prices remain up due to continuing demand around the country. What’s for sale varies;...
Tillage
Straw, particularly in the west of Ireland, is in serious demand. 4X4 bales of barley straw are being delivered in...
Opinion
The following statement might be akin to the old adage of ‘teaching grandmother to suck eggs’, but straw – irrespective...