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Irish Seed Trade Open Day
Minister_3Weather conditions were excellent and among the large attendance at the open day (July 13) at the Dept. of Agriculture & Food  (DAFF) cereal testing station at Backweston, Co. Kildare were agro chemical suppliers, cereal growers, crop consultants, DAFF personnel, food industry (Flahavans, Glanbia Plc, Odlums etc), Teagasc specialists, trade personnel from animal feed & other agribusiness sectors

 

Pictured left to right at the ISTA open day discussing cereal quality are Dr. James Burke, Teagasc Oakpark, Dr. Barry O’Reilly, Kells, Dept. of Agr & Food,  Minister Brendan Smith TD and Donal Fitzgerald, ISTA President.

The Irish Seed Trade Association (ISTA) i represents 15 companies involved in the production and sale of certified cereal and grass seeds. The sale of certified seed is governed by EU law, and all seeds traded by members are assembled and sold in accordance with stringent guidelines applied by the Dept. of Agriculture & Food. ISTA trades almost 40,000 tonnes of cereal seed and approx 3,000 tonnes of grass seed.

Certified seed has a retail value of  around €20M pa,  is used in a wide range of quality assured beverages, consumer foods (eg break fast cereals) , animal feed and pet foods thereby sustaining thousands of Irish jobs in urban and rural locations.

Thousands of tonnes of cereals are also exported for use in livestock, poultry and equine feeds or processed as malt. Certified seed sales also funds essential research and the development of new higher yielding and disease resistant varieties.