We are currently asking members to renew their membership for 2024. We are also seeking to expand our membership base. If you have any questions…
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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.
Farmers across the country are fighting to save their crops as a result of incredibly difficult weather conditions experienced this...
Noteworthy examines how dairy expansion has combined with years of policy neglect to leave grain growers struggling to survive. https://www.thejournal.ie/against-the-grain-pt1-6185038-Oct2023/
Representatives of the Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) will meet Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, in...
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...