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Tillage Podcast: profit predictions, carbon-friendly products and payments
Siobhán Walsh
On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we look at the Teagasc outlook report and hear from Teagasc’s John Spink.
4 December 2024 News
Injecting carbon dioxide into the ground in the US
Earlier this year Siobhán Walsh visited ADM’s Carbon Capture and Storage Facility where Carbon Dioxide is injected and stored deep under ground.
4 December 2024 News
Visiting one of the largest mills in the world
ADM in Decatur, Illinois, is home to the largest corn wet mill in the world, which the Irish Farmers Journal visited.
Grain Trends: rapeseed takes a jump
Oilseed rape prices increased significantly this week. Wheat prices recovered slightly from a drop last week.
4 December 2024 Markets
Tillage Management: costs, returns and oilseed rape
There is still fieldwork to be done, but there is also a need to do up costs and returns estimates for the 2025 season.
4 December 2024 Husbandry
Farmers meet Boortmalt on carbon payment pilot
Boortmalt met with farmers this week to discuss a pilot programme to pay farmers for reducing carbon emissions.
4 December 2024 News
UK cereal supplies tight, exports to decline
A large amount of cereals are imported from Northern Ireland and Britain into Ireland, but production is down.
3 December 2024 News
Survey: regulations pressuring tillage farmers
Regulations are putting pressure on farmers and causing issues for maximising the area of premium crops being grown.
1 December 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area
On this week’s podcast, we hear from the National Potato Conference and have all the latest on the new potato blight strain.
28 November 2024 News
Grain Trends: international markets drop this week
Grain prices dropped this week on international markets. Siobhán Walsh reports on some of the latest news affecting grain markets.
27 November 2024 Markets
Tillage Management: calendar dates to remember
There are a lot of dates to remember at this time of the year, from grazing catch crops to spraying weeds.
27 November 2024 Husbandry
Commissioner tells Ukraine to supply EU with protein
The European Commissioner for Agriculture has suggested that Ukraine focuses on producing protein for the EU market, rather than other grains which it can sell around the world.
27 November 2024 News