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Straw making between €25 and €35

"Straw is making €40/bale in some places, but I wouldn't like to do that to anybody," a tillage farmer from Co Carlow told the Irish Farmers Journal.

11 September 2024 NEWS
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Red hot market as traders battle for straw

Straw is being sold as quick as it comes out of the combine, one Wexford farmer claimed.

21 August 2024 NEWS
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Winter, spring and summer corn

The Dealer heard the following exchange between two farmers in Tullamore at the weekend.

21 August 2024
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Trialing multispecies swards in Laois

Andrew Mulhare planted a small area of multispecies sward on his farm as an experiment to 'see how it goes', reports Kelsey Daly.

21 August 2024
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Mixed farmer reaction to baling payment

Tillage farmers have reacted in different ways to the announcement of a €175/ha payment for baling straw, that was in the Straw Incorporation Measure.

31 July 2024 NEWS

Tillage farmer views: straw not the solution for fodder shortages

Tillage farmers have been writing to politicians and to the Irish Farmers Journal to share their views on the minister’s treatment of the Straw Incorporation Measure.

22 July 2024 NEWS

Tillage farmers being dealt ‘blow after blow’

Danny Doyle’s brother was discing a field where they had chopped straw when news broke that the straw chopping scheme was being suspended.

22 July 2024 NEWS

20% of Waterford tillage farmer’s profits ‘wiped out’ by straw scheme suspension

Pádraig Connery said the scrapping of the Straw Incorporation Measure represents a loss of one-fifth of his total farm income.

20 July 2024 NEWS

Organic farming in the heartland of tillage country

Gavin Tully is an organic tillage farmer near Camolin, Co Wexford. Niamh Murphy explains why he made the switch.

5 June 2024 NEWS