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John Murphy - Chairperson of the IFA Grain Committee Emergency meeting for all malting barley - 12/10/26
John Murphy - Chairperson of the IFA Grain Committee. He is a tillage and dairy farmer from Monageer, Co. Wexford. The IFA will holding an emergency meeting for all malting barley growers tonight in the Woodford Dolmen Hotel, Carlow at 8pm.
The key issue for discussion is the margin in malting barley for 2026 and beyond. Malting barley is more costly to grow than feed barley, yet the price of feed barley is now on a par, or higher, than the malting barley price for 2026. Growers have reacted with disappointment to the release of the harvest 2026 malting barley prices over the past couple of…
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