IGGG: ‘We need to plan to grow more grain in Ireland’
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has called on the government to immediately establish a tillage taskforce. During a meeting...
Irish malting barley is a premium fully traceable GM free crop with a unique provenance. Irish malting barley growers have for generations been proud of…
Read MoreTillage, the cornerstone of the Irish agricultural industry, has been neglected by successive governments and their agencies, hammered by years of low prices and let…
Read MoreThe Irish Grain Growers are a newly formed group, representing arable farmers in the Midlands, South East and South of the country. Our aim is to focus on and promote all the positive aspects tillage farming. We want to improve the industry by promoting constructive communication amongst growers, consumers, manufacturers and policy makers.
We feel that government policy in the past, has neglected tillage, relative to other sectors, as is clearly reflected in the blue print for agriculture, Food Wise 2025 and Food Harvest 2020 policy documents. There seems much more focus on dairy and beef sector in recent years, whilst, in many ways, failing to recognise the contribution of the indigenous tillage sector.
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has called on the government to immediately establish a tillage taskforce. During a meeting...
Source: Agriland The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has said that the tillage sector has far greater potential to grow...
Source: Agriland The potential to grow winter malting barley varieties in Ireland was highlighted at a webinar, hosted by Teagasc earlier this...
Although this is a quiet time of the year on the farm, there is a busy schedule of tillage conferences...
Michal Bobek, from the European Court of Justice, has expressed his belief that new gene editing techniques could pave the...
Approximately €314,000 has been paid out to farmers under the Crop Loss Support Measure, official figures reveal. The €1.5 million...
It wouldn’t be an Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) meeting without the price of malting barley being discussed. The group...
Organisation understood to be to acquiring 200-acre site in Plumperstown Beet Ireland, the lobby group seeking to resurrect Ireland’s sugar...
Calls are being made for the re-establishment of an Irish sugar industry. The Irish Grain Growers association has started holding...
The large crowd in attendance at the Irish Grain Growers Group’s (IGGG) public meeting in Bunclody last night sent a...