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"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.
Straw is being sold as quick as it comes out of the combine, one Wexford farmer claimed.
The Dealer heard the following exchange between two farmers in Tullamore at the weekend.
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Andrew Mulhare planted a small area of multispecies sward on his farm as an experiment to 'see how it goes', reports Kelsey Daly.
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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.
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.
Danny Doyle’s brother was discing a field where they had chopped straw when news broke that the straw chopping scheme was being suspended.
Pádraig Connery said the scrapping of the Straw Incorporation Measure represents a loss of one-fifth of his total farm income.
Gavin Tully is an organic tillage farmer near Camolin, Co Wexford. Niamh Murphy explains why he made the switch.
