Tillage
Irish Seed Trade Association president, Tim O’Donovan, is indicating that the autumn planting season could continue until early December
Teagasc has just published its 2025 autumn crop planting estimates in tandem with the end-of-season harvest figures.
Teagasc has just published its 2025 Harvest Report, covering all of the combinable crops grown in Ireland, including oilssed rape and beans
Teagasc is indicating that the area dedicated to hybrid rye in 2025/26 may come in at around 5,000ha: up from the 3,000ha previously recorded
Pig/Poultry
Ongoing research at Harper Adams' University is confirming that hybrid rye can be used as an alternative to wheat in poultry rations.
Both potato and cereal growers are confirming that the heavy rains preceding the recent Storm Amy have brought field work to a halt
Teagasc continues to highlight the benefits of Irish growers widening their cereal planting mix: winter rye can be part of this process.
According to the director general of the IGFA, Maeve Whyte, native grain is vital for the country’s feed sector
Teagasc is highlighting the key autumn planting priorities that should be established on tillage farms over the coming weeks.
The Teagasc Crops Forum took place last Wednesday, September 10, at the Killashee Hotel, Naas, Co. Kildare.
The upcoming Teagasc Crops’ Forum event will put a strong focus on the potential to increase the area of winter rye grown in Ireland
Given the dry growing conditions up to this point in 2025, ergot should not be that big of an issue in grains harvested over recent days.
Teagasc is confirming that 2024/25 winter cereal plantings are back up to levels last recorded back in the autumn of 2022.
With the end of the 2024 grain harvest now in sight, growers will be turning their thoughts to the planting of winter cereal crops.
Hybrid rye is being mooted by some as a winter cereal crop option with significant potential for the 2023/24 season.
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Farmers attending the recent Teagasc spring tillage seminar in Donegal were briefed on the benefits of growing hybrid rye’
Tillage News
Powers Irish Whiskey has today (Tuesday, January 31) unveiled the world’s first 100% Irish rye whiskey.
Hybrid rye could fit in well to tillage farmers' systems and encourage more fodder production agreements.
It seems like any open day AgriLand attends lately has a crop of rye growing at it. The tall crop has some interesting potential.
