Don’t accept low prices, grain growers advised

THE return of sunshine has speeded the completion of the winter barley and winter oats harvests, but the yields are back on last year.

Jim O'Mahony, chief tillage advisor with Teagasc, said this week that winter barley yields from 20,000 hectares are back by at least one tonne per hectare on last year.

Yields of winter oats from 10,000 hectares are relatively better than the winter barley, but are still slightly back on 2001.