CropsAfter Tirlán set its 2026 grain and oilseed prices, farm groups said soaring input and labour costs have wiped out margins and warned growers may skip potash and phosphate.
CropsIrish co-op Tirlán set harvest prices of €220/t for green feed barley and €230/t for green feed wheat, up €30/t on last year, but took in 190,000 tonnes against almost 223,000 in the 2025 bumper harvest.
CropsAHDB's final harvest update puts UK winter wheat at 6.9 t/ha, about 11 percent below the five-year average, spring barley 17 percent below and oats 14 percent below, while oilseed rape averaged 4.0 t/ha, 19 percent above.
CropsAHDB's final harvest report shows wheat down 11% and oats 14% below the five-year mean, while oilseed rape came in 19% above it at 4 t/ha.
CropsA University of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute study found varieties such as Optic suppress ammonia-oxidising microbes by up to 30%, a heritable trait breeders could select to cut nitrogen losses.
CropsThe NASS wheat and barley variety survey shows MSU's solid-stem Dagmar and Bobcat leading Montana spring and winter wheat, while barley area rose by 100,000 acres.
Centenary Thurles has set Harvest 2026 prices of €225/t for feed barley, €237/t for feed wheat and €220/t for oats, a year-on-year rise that the IFA and the Irish Grain Growers' Group say still falls short of soaring input costs on tillage farms.
Saskatchewan grower Chad Ferguson says the variety out-yields AAC Synergy with a stronger disease package and now has enough maltster acceptance to be worth switching to; Churchill took 9.6% of western Canada's malting-barley area in 2025, up from 3.1% in 2023.
