This week in print, audio and video, Tillage editor Siobhán Walsh takes her film crew down the roads and laneways of Ireland to bring viewers, listeners and readers first-hand, real-life estimates of what harvest 2025 looks like.
We are indebted to industry guests who give up valuable time at a very busy part of the season. Our guests are meeting those working at the coal face, as farmers across the country harvest what has been growing for the last ten months.
Teagasc suggests the average income on tillage farms is now forecast to increase by 12% to €43,000.
They qualify this by suggesting that much of the 12% forecasted increase in income on tillage farms is coming from the livestock price bounce. The forecast income on tillage farms for 2025 is expected to be below the previous five-year average.
On pages 36 and 37, Siobhán details the 2025 positive production estimates, up 334,000 tonnes on 2024. Spring barley is estimated to yield 2.75t/acre this year, with the mainstay of the grain crop being harvested two weeks earlier than usual.
Yield
Yield ranges from crops that suffered from drought and disease at 1.5t/acre to the very best that are coming in over 3.5t/acre.
The Crop Tour 2025 is our way in the Irish Farmers Journal, of reinforcing our commitment to the tillage sector – a new initiative, a new way of getting key messages across in a real and practical farm setting.
To our key sponsor for this project, BASF, we thank you and to all those individual farmers that pick up a paper or sign up to a digital read, listen or to watch a video, we also say thank you. We plan to further develop this model.
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