Winter cereals

This back-end has presented an excellent chance to get winter cereals sown after maize, potatoes or beet have been harvested.

There are still crops to be harvested, but the winter planting season is underway across the country.

There is no movement on fertiliser prices across NI, with little interest on forward buying for next spring.

Tillage farmers have had two wet autumn planting seasons and rotations have been affected because of this.

Teagasc's Richie Hackett goes through some of the key management practices for hybrid rye.