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Tillage Podcast: spring has sprung in the northwest
Siobhán Walsh
On this week’s show, we have an update on fieldwork in the northwest, along with all the latest tillage news.
2 April 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: spring tillage work continues
We have also bought in some straight potash, following our soil samples showing low K on the silage ground.
19 March 2025 News
Beans and oats sold out as planting continues
Tillage farmers are busy planting spring crops across the country and in the main have now moved onto spring barley crops.
Tillage management: sunshine, dry ground and spring cropping
A lot of work has been completed on tillage farms across the country in the past few weeks in very good weather conditions.
19 March 2025 Husbandry
Home Farm: Spring work underway
As I write, we are sowing the beans. I was interested to see that our delivery came from Denmark.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Opinion: whiskey tariffs are the cloud in bright March skies
Good weather means a spring in the step of farmers planting crops, but the markets are not as bright as the weather, with tariffs (yet again) a threat.
15 March 2025 Opinion
Home Farm: Lime levels being counted
We don’t use that much lime, but it’s noticeable that even on just one farm that pH levels vary from one field with a pH of over 7.5 while a small grass paddock was analysed at 5.5.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Tillage Management: sowing, spreading and spraying
It’s all go in the tillage fields this week as fine weather has taken over the weather charts to give farmers a great chance this spring.
12 March 2025 Husbandry
Farmer Writes: the pigeons fleeced my oilseed rape
Gerald Potterton farms tillage and some beef at Kildalkey, Co Meath.
12 March 2025 Farmer Writes
Home Farm: all systems go
The first priority was to get the Roundup on the beans ground – it badly needs cleaning up before sowing.
5 March 2025 Viewpoints
Tillage management: good weather and plenty of work to do
There has been great weather in recent days and it is allowing tillage farmers to get out to the fields to get work done.
5 March 2025 Husbandry
Home Farm: Spring plans delayed
The beans are going into fields that had a terrible crop of winter barley, a bad crop of winter wheat and a reasonable crop of late sown spring barley.
26 February 2025 Viewpoints