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Tillage
Tillage management: sowing, herbicides and maize
Siobhán Walsh
Tillage farmers took advantage of the good weather last week to get crops planted. Rain fell heavier in some areas than others.
2 October 2024 Husbandry
Tillage Management: baling, beans and planting
There are farmers trying to harvest crops, bale straw and plant winter cereals in the current mixed weather.
24 September 2024 News
September hay saved in Sligo
This summer was particularly quiet for contractors due to poor grass growth, according to Marty Lenehan in Maugherow, Co Sligo.
Farmer Writes: resilient suckler farmers
There’s an enormous amount of resilience in suckler farmers (this could also be termed stubbornness) and year after year we do what we can with what we’ve got.
11 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Watch: Swedish farmer sets new 24-hour baling record
The record has now been validated after it was completed at the farm of Bro Godås in Säffle, Sweden, in July.
9 September 2024 News
10 tips for harvesting autumn silage
Where farmers are taking advantage of improve weather to harvest silage, outlined are some tips to saving fodder in autumn. Kieran Mailey writes.
4 September 2024 Northern Ireland
Tillage Management: main harvest period on the way
The main block of cereal harvesting is expected to take place in the coming days if weather allows.
28 August 2024 Husbandry
Malt quality vital for viable harvest
With a high proportion of grain crops in Wexford, Carlow and Laois being malting barley, passing quality controls will be vital to ensuring a margin for growers
14 August 2024 News
Baling payment should not affect tillage support
The Baling Assistance Payment was announced by the Minister to encourage farmers to pull out of the Straw Incorporation Measure.
13 August 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: a new combine, yields, beetles and straw
On this week’s show, we travel to Co Cork, chat to an entomologist, look at the paper and have details of the new baling payment.
1 August 2024 News
Mixed farmer reaction to baling payment
Tillage farmers have reacted in different ways to the announcement of a €175/ha payment for baling straw, that was in the Straw Incorporation Measure.
31 July 2024 News
Farmers must bale as much straw as possible – minister
I think we will see a strong straw market this year, Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has said.
31 July 2024 News