Tillage
Pre-emergence best control option for grass weed control
Winter cereals are being drilled into the ground all over the country. The focus at present is on getting crops...
Winter Cereals
Tillage
Seed selling out as winter barley returns to peak levels
The winter barley acreage is set to increase by approximately 36% and return to peak levels this growing season. Donal...
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Watch: How Cavan farm partnership combats scour
Scour occurs when the gut becomes compromised and calves lose proper functioning of the intestine, resulting in diarrhoea and loss...
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Dry year doesn't test varieties for disease
The exceptional growing season gone by provided a poor year for testing varieties for disease – one of the biggest...
Tillage
Keep the seed drill in the shed
Current dry conditions and a fear of a return of wet conditions – like last winter – will no doubt...
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Tillage management: Herbicide options for winter crops
Poor ground conditions over the winter left many crops without a herbicide. Although farmers are eager to get out with...
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Tillage focus: Fertiliser out and ploughing well underway in Tipperary
Thomas Lonergan is in a minority group; he’s a young tillage farmer. Having studied at Kildalton College, he came home...
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Winter planting: Acreage down but by how much?
Winter crop acreage looks to be down, despite a burst of planting equipment to the tillage fields in the past...
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Tillage focus: Sowing winter wheat beside the M50
“The hardest machine to move in city traffic is the combine. The balers are big enough as well. They can...
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Watch: Offaly farmer makes big savings by 'going solar'
Imagine standing on your farm, knowing you have taken steps to secure its future. The sun is shining, not just...
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Tillage management: How can you control BYDV and aphids?
Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) has become a major talking point in Irish cereal production in the past number of...
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Tillage focus: Balancing winter sowing with an on-farm enterprise
Francis, Gavin and Diarmuid Owens are tillage farmers in Ballycullane, just outside Athy, Co. Kildare. The brothers sow mostly winter...
Tillage
'Spray herbicide early to control grass weeds'
Winter cereals are currently being planted where weather allows. Once sowing is completed, farmers should start looking at their autumn...
Tillage
High levels of mildew reported in some winter cereals
Teagasc is reporting quite high levels of mildew infestations in a number of winter cereal crops. “Generally speaking, both wheat...
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Winter cereal crops starting to yellow
Some winter cereal crops have started to yellow slightly over recent days, according to Teagasc tillage advisor Marianne Mulhall. But...