Tillage
The Drummonds' trial site in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth is a massive asset to the company's growers and agronomists.
Dairygold has almost doubled the area of beans planted by its growers. The co-operative has been promoting protein with fixed prices.
If you could buy flour produced from Irish wheat would you? If you found out the flour on shop shelves was not Irish would you be surprised?
Pádraig Connery hails from Villierstown in Co. Waterford. He has been farming full-time for almost five years now.
The wheat is being irrigated on Whyte Brothers' Farm; not the potatoes. Rain is needed in the north east where the farm spans three counties.
This young farmer has his spring cereal crops set following the wet winter. Next on his list is maize, which he grows on contract.
You're every bit as important as a small tillage farmer, as the fella who's out there doing it on a large scale.
Back in August, AgriLand popped in to see some of the harvest on Ballykilcavan Farm, just outside Stradbally in Co. Laois.
For today's 'look back' we revisit Gareth Culligan's story in Co. Louth. Gareth's story took off, along with his BASE Ireland colleagues.
In July, AgriLand took an insightful trip with the Grain Farmers of Ontario, Canada. The trip gave an insight into a jist of Canadian Farms.
Ahead of the BiG X harvester lay a crop of soybeans ready to be wholecropped and they were flying through the machine.
Agri-Business
Irish barley, Irish drinks and imported grain are something that feature quite a bit in the news and cause frustration for tillage farmers.
In early May, AgriLand saw the O'Gorman brothers' 'Green Army' at work, planting potatoes in Co. Laois. The video now has over 280,000 views.
In this 'look back' we journey back to February, to Darragh Cleary who farms outside Monasterevin in Co. Kildare.
Over the next few days AgriLand will take a look back at some of the most popular visits over the past year.
This year, 30 students have opted to study crops at Kildalton Agricultural College. It's an exceptional figure for the tillage industry.
Tom Barry farms in Killavullen, Co. Cork and last week he told his story to a group of young tillage farmers at the Macra Annual Conference.
It wasn't just an average silage pick up in Stratford, Co. Wicklow, as John Wynne's soybean crop went under the knife.
The O'Gorman brothers' new John Deere T660i - with a 22ft header - was eating the wheat as dark clouds threatened with rain over head.
Yesterday, August 19, AgriLand met Clive Carter in a field of winter oats which he has been waiting to cut for the past two weeks.
Waterford Distillery is somewhere you leave with optimism. Its dedication to traceability and loyalty to growers is simple, but complicated.
Some day David Walsh Kemmis may walk into his local pub and order a pint of his own beer and a short of whisky produced from his own barley.
"I built this drill." That was one of the first things that Mark Brock said when he greeted a group of journalists in Canada last week.
