Rye production in Ireland.

Giving rye a try - Ciaran Collins, Teagasc Crops, Environment and Land Use Programme and Gonor Kavanagh Teagasc Tipperary write in Today's Farm about Rye Production in Ireland

Always substantial winter wheat growers, Gerard O'Meara and his father Pat, decided in 2018 to look at alternatives as Gerard felt "the cost of growing a crop of winter wheat outweighed the flnancial return for the end product".

He was approached by Tim O'Donovan of Seedtech with the option of growing a crop of hybrid rye for use in a trial on pig diets at Teagasc, Moorepark near Fermoy.

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