Recovery in grain prices is vital for the sector’s future, warns IFA

AS the harvest gets under way in earnest, the IFA has warned that a sustained recovery in grain prices is necessary if tillage farming is to survive.

Work on the main harvest of spring barley, wheat and oats totalling 225,000 hectares is due to commence in the next 10 days.

Normally, the winter barley crop would be cut at this stage, but broken weather in July has hampered the work.