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Tillage
Tillage management: payments, hedgerows and a break
Siobhán Walsh
There are jobs to be done on farms and crops need to be kept an eye on, but it is important to take a break.
10 December 2024 News
Examining nutrition and fungicides on beet crops
Nutrition needs to be watched in beet crops. Some crops were showing nitrogen and boron deficiency this year.
27 November 2024 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: a trip to Brussels and cows dried off
The farmer we visited told us Belgium has been TB free for 10 years, why can’t our Government learn from this and other countries who have become TB free and maintained it.
Beet book fills a void in nation's early history
The launch of Christopher Power's book on the history of the Carlow sugar factory is also a history of Ireland's first steps as an independent nation.
27 November 2024 Dealer
New Smart fodder beet on the way
This Smart beet crop could make a big difference to yield in beet crops, as it is a fodder beet. So far, these varieties have been sugar beet.
17 November 2024 News
Dairy nuts costing up to €330/t on average
Prices currently being paid by dairy farmers for a high-spec 16% dairy nut are between the €340/t and €360/t mark
16 October 2024 News
Tillage Management: sowing, harvesting and weed control
Ground conditions are still good for planting. Many farmers still have crops to harvest across the country.
16 October 2024 Husbandry
Tillage Podcast: harvest prices, maize and more malt
On this week’s show, we talk to Goldcrop’s Dave Barry on maize and beet, to Paul McGillicuddy of the Malting Company of Ireland and have the first harvest grain prices.
3 October 2024 News
Young farmers looking for farms
Aidan Brennan chats with two members of the Future Vision group looking to enter the sector.
2 October 2024 Grass & feeding