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Sustainable beef production Australian style
Phelim O'Neill
Patrick Hutchinson tells the Irish Farmers Journal how sustainability fits in to the Australian beef production model.
19 March 2025 Contracting
Agricultural contracting challenges are now clear - time for support is now
Like many sectors of Irish agriculture, agricultural contracting is at a crossroads and the issues are now clear, reports Michael Moroney.
27 February 2025 News
€100m investment needed to get hemp industry off ground
Wicklow organic farmer Edward Hanbidge made the call for State and private investment while speaking at the industrial hemp conference hosted by Teagasc in Ashtown, Co Dublin, on Thursday.
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Dairy farmers advised to convert to sucklers
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Camera at the Mart: no easing in beef calf prices despite increase in supply
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Plans unveiled for Ireland’s biggest biogas plant in Carlow
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BVD testing support increased to €3.50/calf
Eighty seven per cent increase in cover crop area with funding in Wexford
Funding from the Farming for Water project has helped to increase the area of cover crops planted in the Castledockerell catchment.
12 February 2025 News
Tillage Podcast: flour from beans, soil carbon and crop establishment
On this week’s episode, we have three guests discussing a number of very different topics from flour to cultivations.
6 February 2025 News
How AgNav is helping with sustainability
Jonathan Herron and Natasha Browne from Teagasc, Moorepark take a look at AgNav, the new sustainability tool for farmers.
5 February 2025 Fertilizers
Tillage carbon calculator almost here
This new tool is going to make a big difference to how carbon emissions are measured on Irish tillage farms.
5 February 2025 News
More carbon in tillage soils than expected
The attendees at the Teagasc National Tillage Conference heard that soil type and carbon inputs are the key to carbon sequestration. Conor Kehoe reports.
5 February 2025 News
Top soil questions answered from Teagasc tillage conference
In this article, Conor Kehoe goes through some of your top questions on soil from the Teagasc National Tillage Conference.
4 February 2025 News
Dairygold tillage conference
Cultivation workload can be spread out much more in the season and potentially this could reduce costs significantly.
22 January 2025 Viewpoints
65% of straw chopping area baled in 2024
Almost two thirds of the cereal area entered into the Straw Incorporation Measure was taken out to be baled in 2024.
8 January 2025 News
Quantifying habitats and carbon stored on Signpost Farms
In this article Stuart Greene describes how light technology is helping to measure habitats and carbon storage on farms.
8 December 2024 Signpost Programme