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Tillage Podcast: still time to plant oilseed as harvest continues
Siobhán Walsh
This week’s show has a report on harvest from the northeast, has advice on oilseed rape planting and all the news.
11 September 2024 From the Tramlines
Barley passing for malting but yields vary
This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Waterford, Galway, and Meath as the spring barley harvest begins to wrap up.
11 September 2024 Viewpoints
Home Farm: some cattle in, mole ploughing in tillage
We have ended up housing the most forward cattle and will probably aim to finish them for the pre-Christmas market.
Grain Trends: some pick-up in prices
Grain prices were looking more positive this week, as some reports suggested a tightening in supplies.
11 September 2024 Markets
Tillage Management: harvest continues where it can
There is a lot of work to be done on farms at the minute, and some deadlines have been extended.
11 September 2024 Husbandry
Over 70% of cereal harvest completed
The weather has not been good for farmers with crops to cut over the past week as showery weather continued.
11 September 2024 News
Feed prices to remain stable in short term
Feed prices will depend on what price is set for grain, co-ops and merchants have said.
11 September 2024 News
Farmer Writes: spring barley set to be our harvest saviour
Good old spring barley, I thought to myself from the combine seat, it’s an unlikely saviour, but it will be the crop of the harvest, writes Gerald Potterton.
11 September 2024 Farmer Writes
In photos: greenway protests, harvesting and threshing
Our top photos from the week include Cooley farmers protesting a proposed greenway and a Cork farmer spreading seeds with his quad and APV seeder. We also captured harvesting, farm walks and more.
8 September 2024 News
Growers need to give malting barley every chance to pass - agronomist
Quality has been exceptional in spring barley so far, but growers need to give crops every chance to pass for malting with the remainder of crops.
8 September 2024 News
Boortmalt to take low-bushel barley at deduction
Boortmalt has told merchants that it will take barley at lower bushels than specified, but with a price deduction.
6 September 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: visiting a very busy Co Laois grain intake
We talk to Martin McDonald of Stradbally Town and Country about the busiest days of the harvest so far.
5 September 2024 News