05 September 2024

Harvest results from around the country

With a good proportion of the harvest completed, Teagasc Tillage Advisors, Ciara O’Donovan, Conor O’Callaghan and John Pettit join this week’s Tillage Edge podcast to report on the yields in their areas to date, with all three reporting good yields from spring barley and reasonable straw yields.

There was agreement that winter cereal and winter oilseed rape yields were generally disappointing, with winter wheat, which looked to have potential, giving a poor yield. 

All of the advisors put the low averages down to thinner crops, with bare patches due to the poor weather all year.  

Listen in below:

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