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This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Galway, Carlow and Kildare as the last of the crops are cut and the first of the winter cereals go in between the showers.
Tipp land sells for just under €31,000/ac at auction
Bluetongue spreads to three more counties, with cases in sheep and cattle
Galway farmer cuts costs by taking DIY approach to new suckler shed
How Kildare father and son built a growing winter feed business on tillage farm
Farm building grant reveals 1798 pike heads and a jam jar of Civil War letters
On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we go through the harvest estimates report, have interviews from the Haggard Stores potato open day and much more.
Cereal production is down this year, some crops really disappointed farmers, while others surprised in a short growing season, writes Siobhán Walsh.
The heatwave and hot weather is likely to have hit cereal yields this harvest, according to a survey by the Irish Farmers Journal.
Tillage farmers are hugely disappointed to learn that oat feed - understood to be made up of waste from oat milling - is being fed to Irish animals.
Irish oats sit in store, while an oat waste product is being imported into the country to be fed to animals.
This week’s show is busy with a harvest report and also features information on oilseed rape varieties.
The spring barley harvest has been in full gear over the last few days, and the beans harvest is under way in many counties.
Bord Bia launches HortLink to strengthen Ireland’s horticulture community New grower-led network will foster collaboration, support emerging leaders and help attract the next generation of horticulture talent into the sector.