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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 News
Straw making between €25 and €35
"Straw is making €40/bale in some places, but I wouldn't like to do that to anybody," a tillage farmer from Co Carlow told the Irish Farmers Journal.
11 September 2024 News
44% of recommended winter barley varieties BYDV-tolerant
There are three new varieties on the recommended list and two of those claim to be tolerant to BYDV.
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 From the Tramlines
Growers urged to be vigilant for new potato blight strain
The EU43 strain of potato blight, first recorded in Ireland last year, has been causing concern for potato grower throughout the country after outbreaks of the pathogen in Europe.
11 September 2024 News
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
Review into how Irish whiskey is made
The technical file of Irish whiskey outlines how whiskey should be produced, but does not specify ingredients.
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
Crop forum: get rotations back on track for profit
Tillage farmers have had two wet autumn planting seasons and rotations have been affected because of this.
11 September 2024 News
Top oat growers wanted
Flahavan’s has launched the Oat grower of the Year Awards for 2024 to recognise the hard work and dedication of its suppliers.
11 September 2024 News