Tillage
Grain price: Low maize yield may add to rise
Grain prices continued to rise this week. LIFFE wheat in the UK hit £194.65/t on Wednesday (August 8), while Tuesday...
Tillage
Grain prices continued to rise this week. LIFFE wheat in the UK hit £194.65/t on Wednesday (August 8), while Tuesday...
Tillage
On August 1, LIFFE wheat hit a high of £189.75/t (€213.01/t). This is the highest price recorded – on that...
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Grain prices continued to drop back on Monday (July 16). This was also the case last week, when prices dropped...
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Grain price has been unsettled in the past few weeks and – more worryingly for grain farmers – prices were...
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It doesn’t take Albert Einstein to work out that cereal crops have recovered tremendously over recent weeks. Sowing conditions, in...
Tillage
The price of grain is a hot topic at the moment and with good reason; it’s moving in a positive...
Opinion
I have to take issue with MEP Marian Harkin’s assertion that private forestry development and large-scale tree planting in places...
Tillage
Low resistance risk fungicide programmes must be adopted universally to prolong the efficacy of cereal chemistry in the UK, delegates...
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World grain prices look set to remain at current levels for the foreseeable future, according to R&H Hall trader Philip...
Tillage
By Siobhan Walsh The winter cereal recommended lists for 2018 were published last week by the Department of Agriculture, Food...
Tillage
European cereal production is expected to be below average for another year, according to the summer short-term outlook report published by...
Opinion
The Irish weather has conspired, yet again, to hole the prospects for tillage farmers below the water line. Large swathes...
Tillage
Septoria is the most destructive disease of Irish winter wheat crops and in the absence of commercially-viable, highly-resistant varieties, fungicides will...
Tillage
A weed-killing machine that pulverises weed seeds upon harvest could be a huge step in reducing the amount of chemicals...
Agri-Business
The UK’s decision to leave the EU will most likely “not have a significant impact” on the bloc’s cereals market...
Tillage
The risk of fusarium attack on winter wheat crops will be quite high over the coming days, according to Teagasc’...
Tillage
Late-sown spring barley crops will require treatment with herbicide to knock out weeds over the coming days. That is according...
Tillage
Most winter wheat crops have reached Growth Stage 32, according to Teagasc tillage advisor Marianne Mulhall. “This represents full flag...