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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...

Tillage sector has ‘far greater potential’ – IGGG

Source: Agriland The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) has said that the tillage sector has far greater potential to grow...

Trials shows that winter malting barley can deliver for grain growers

Source: Agriland The potential to grow winter malting barley varieties in Ireland was highlighted at a webinar, hosted by Teagasc earlier this...

Why this farmer has joined a new farming organisation

Although this is a quiet time of the year on the farm, there is a busy schedule of tillage conferences...

Gene editing classification could solve GMO debate

Michal Bobek, from the European Court of Justice, has expressed his belief that new gene editing techniques could pave the...

€314,000 paid out to farmers that lost crops in wet harvest of 2016

Approximately €314,000 has been paid out to farmers under the Crop Loss Support Measure, official figures reveal. The €1.5 million...

Minimum of €200/t must be introduced for brewing barley

It wouldn’t be an Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) meeting without the price of malting barley being discussed. The group...

Beet Ireland buys sugar site on Carlow-Kildare border

Organisation understood to be to acquiring 200-acre site in Plumperstown Beet Ireland, the lobby group seeking to resurrect Ireland’s sugar...

Grain growers call for return of Irish sugar industry

Calls are being made for the re-establishment of an Irish sugar industry. The Irish Grain Growers association has started holding...

Is it time for a tillage traceability logo?

The large crowd in attendance at the Irish Grain Growers Group’s (IGGG) public meeting in Bunclody last night sent a...