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UK cereal supplies tight, exports to decline
Siobhán Walsh
A large amount of cereals are imported from Northern Ireland and Britain into Ireland, but production is down.
UK cereal supplies tight, exports to decline
Survey: regulations pressuring tillage farmers
1 December 2024 News
Survey: regulations pressuring tillage farmers
Regulations are putting pressure on farmers and causing issues for maximising the area of premium crops being grown.
Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area
28 November 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area
On this week’s podcast, we hear from the National Potato Conference and have all the latest on the new potato blight strain.
Resistance to new blight strain a concern
Irish farmers can learn lessons from others' experience of the Revus and Zorvec-resistant blight strain that emerged in Denmark, the national potato conference heard.
27 November 2024 News
Disease-resistant spuds will not reduce need for chemistry - Teagasc
Chemical protection will remain important for growers even when new, more resistant varieties come on stream, a Teagasc researcher explained.
27 November 2024 News
Horticulture written charter ‘necessary’ for growers
The charter would assist growers to draw up supply agreements that go beyond a one-year horizon, but also allow for flexibility on price if input costs were to rise.
27 November 2024 News
Consumers 'not hungry' for the most efficient potato varieties
Growers could plant more efficient varieties of potatoes, but the consumer is not looking for them, an agronomist told the national potato conference.
27 November 2024 News
Commissioner tells Ukraine to supply EU with protein
The European Commissioner for Agriculture has suggested that Ukraine focuses on producing protein for the EU market, rather than other grains which it can sell around the world.
27 November 2024 News
950 applications for straw baling payment
A total of 950 applications were made for the Baling Assistance Payment, which the minister introduced in July.
26 November 2024 News
Winter cereal area estimated up almost 27,000ha
Teagasc has released winter cereal and oilseed rape cropping area estimates for the 2025 season.
24 November 2024 News
Flahavan’s hosts annual organic oat growers conference
The sold-out event brought together 180 organic farmers, those in conversion and others interested in organic farming from across the country.
22 November 2024 News
Teagasc estimates 1.9m tonnes of cereals produced
Teagasc outlined extremely wet months of weather in October, November, February, March and April as one of the major factors affecting planting and crop yields.
22 November 2024 News