Agri Politics
The government is being called on to take "urgent action" to avoid tariffs on flour that would see bread prices spike for consumers.
Tillage
The Great British Bake Off returned this week and AgriLand was interested to hear that bakers almost ran out of flour while filming.
In Ireland we don't produce wheat for flour on any significant scale - apart from a few small artisan and organic producers.
If you could buy flour produced from Irish wheat would you? If you found out the flour on shop shelves was not Irish would you be surprised?
The current shortage of flour in Ireland is a "direct result of years of under-investment in the tillage industry", according to the ICSA.
Anyone who looks closely at an "Irish" brand of flour will notice that the packet will say something like "milled and packed" in Ireland.
