Teagasc Crop Report
Crop Report Update Number 1 2025
Crop Report Update Number 1 2025
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Winter Crop Walks 2025
This years series of winter crop walks begins on Monday Feb. 17th in Dublin and will continue throughout the week.
Key topics include;
- Managing forward crops
- Nutrient management for winter crops
- Disease control in winter wheat - new changes
- Weed control - tidy up options
See full details of times and venues below;
Nutrient Management Planning
Many farmers are currently filling up nutrient management plans to try to establish their fertiliser requirements for 2025. As the National Fertiliser Database is now over a year in place most people are realising that accurate fertiliser planning is crucial to avoid penalties on your BISS application payments.
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Winter Barley
Winter barley crops have emerged relatively unscathed from the winter months with most crops at late tillering stage and will soon need their first application of a compound fertiliser.
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Winter Wheat
Crops are looking healthy with little losses over the winter months. There was some slug activity on some crops in the autumn but this doesn't seem to have had any lasting impact of crops for the most part.
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Winter Oats
Many crops suffered some superficial damage after the snow and frost in January but hopefully this doesn't seem to have had a lasting effect. Thankfully winter hardiness or frost heave don't seem to be an issue so far. Crops looked leggy before Christmas but are not anymore advanced than normal at this stage.
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Winter Oilseed Rape
Oilseed rape crops are being grazed heavily in many areas at the moment with significant differences in GAI occurring in the same fields in many cases, fertilising these crops will be tricky over the coming weeks.
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Spring Beans
Spring bean yields and quality suffered towards the end of last season from being harvested late and high moistures, both as a direct result of being planted late in the spring. €10 million has been set aside again for the protein payment in 2025 so there will again be a good incentive to grow them again this year.
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Crop Margins
Crop margins for 2025 will be broadly similar to 2024 with falling input prices and fertiliser in particular even though prices are rising at the moment is a significant factor. Machinery costs, however, are increasing, and will more than offset the reduction in input prices, so all farmers need to try to make sure that these increases in machinery costs are managed as best as possible. An online copy of the booklet is available here.
Teagasc has produced a machinery sharing template that can be used by growers or contractors to develop agreements that facilitates sharing machinery, with the overall aim to reduce cost but also to increase access better machinery and access to labour. A copy of the template can be found in the Teagasc collaboration website.
