Opinion
Why is malting barley not being treated as a premium crop?
What’s Boortmalt’s game? The company’s management team has spent most of this year telling the world about the need to...
Opinion
What’s Boortmalt’s game? The company’s management team has spent most of this year telling the world about the need to...
Tillage
Winter barley yields have been a mixed bag and yields have ranged from 3t/ac up to 4.25t/ac so far this...
Tillage
With winter barley yields back 10-15% nationally, it has been a difficult start to the harvest. Grain merchants across the...
Tillage
The harvesting of winter barley was coming to an end on Murragh Farm in Oldtown, Co. Dublin earlier this week. The...
Tillage
Harvesting is well underway in the south-east and the focus has turned to combining winter oats in recent days. Speaking...
Tillage
Combines have been rolling for the last number of weeks, with quite a bit of the country’s winter barley crop...
Tillage
Just 20km north of the capital, Derek Keeling and his father Derek senior farm 350ha in Oldtown, Co. Dublin. Derek...
Tillage
Feed barley needs to be at a base price of €160/t and wheat €15-18/t above that, according to the Irish Grain Growers...
Tillage
Harvest 2017 is well underway in some parts of the country, with crops ripening up to a week earlier than...
Tillage
The harvesting of winter barley has kicked into gear and farmers, particularly in the south, are expecting crops to ripen...
N.Ireland
Most autumn-sown cereals in Northern Ireland appear to have come through the winter in good condition, according to CAFRE agronomist...
Tillage
This year’s winter barley harvest could be a potential game changer, according to Teagasc Tillage Advisor Ciaran Hickey. Speaking to...
Tillage
Tillage farmers are facing into a harvest of price uncertainty as a bumper European harvest is likely to apply downward...
Tillage
Tillage farmers are facing negative returns on many crops this year, as projected prices fall short of the cost of...
Tillage
Winter barley production in Ireland continues to grow, with the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showing that...
Tillage
Tillage farmers with crops and land affected by recent rainfall are being advised to take some simple steps to help...
Tillage
The one downside for cereal growers to the current good spell of weather is the risk that crops might be...
Tillage
Grain aphids developing resistance to chemical controls could have a negative impact on winter barley yields under Irish tillage systems,...