Harvest

Wheat and oilseed prices increased in the last week, with many factors affecting prices across the globe.

Gerald Potterton has a strip-till coming for a demo onto his farm soon.

Low dry matter crops of forage maize should be mixed with a product that can soak up the effluent that would otherwise run off the silage pit.

The American space administration’s NASA Harvest representatives spoke at the World Agri-tech Innovation Summit in London about how their technology can be used to monitor food security.

On this week’s show, we talk to Goldcrop’s Dave Barry on maize and beet, to Paul McGillicuddy of the Malting Company of Ireland and have the first harvest grain prices.

The first official harvest prices were announced this week for feed grain. Quinns of Baltinglass was first out of the blocks.

There are farmers trying to harvest crops, bale straw and plant winter cereals in the current mixed weather.

We scanned a few cows that showed up doubtful on the collars on Monday, writes Padraig Callanan.