Grain Growers Protest Outside Guinness
On Tuesday, the Irish Grain Growers held a protest outside St James’s Gate in Dublin, to highlight the current challenges...
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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.
On Tuesday, the Irish Grain Growers held a protest outside St James’s Gate in Dublin, to highlight the current challenges...
Malting Barley Growers Association are to step up their campaign to highlight the current challenges facing their sector and indeed...
A protest by the Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) is set to take place tomorrow (Tuesday, November 14) at 12:00pm...
Malting giant Boortmalt has opted to extend its malting capacity in Athy, Co. Kildare, by 30,000t to continue providing its...
Farmers have warned they may opt out of growing malting barley, with prices now €20/t below the price they received...
We talked to three tillage farmers who joined the protest outside the Boortmalt HQ in Co Kildare to highlight the...
The malsters’ treatment of their contracted barley growers is nothing short of scandalous. One would have thought that the difficult...
The Irish Grain Growers (IGG) group threatens to escalate protests in call for €200/t for malting barley. Malting barley must...
Farmers have warned Guinness may be made solely from imported malt in the future unless stronger prices are delivered to...
Almost 80 grain growers marched in front of the Boortmalt premises to show their frustration at the harvest malting barley...