Tillage Podcast: losing land, stubbles, birds and malt expansion

On this week’s show, we hear from a Cork tillage farmer who is trying to protect the biodiversity on his farm, but nitrates rules aren’t helping.

Siobhán Walsh

7 March 2024

Tillage Podcast: losing land, stubbles, birds and malt expansion

John Lancaster from Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, took the top prize, the Guinness Perpetual Cup for malting barley excellence, at the Boortmalt and Diageo Irish malting barley excellence awards at a ceremony in The Guinness Storehouse, Dublin. \ Naoise Culhane

On this week’s show, we have the results of the Irish Farmers Journal land survey with tillage farmers.

We chat to Cork tillage farmer Paul Moore on endangered species, surveys and nitrates rules.

As always, we have all the latest tillage news, grain trends and the weather report.

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