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Northern Ireland
Sustainability is a ‘massive opportunity’ for NI farms
Peter McCann
Ian Marshall from Queen's University Belfast spoke at the Oxford Farming Conference last week.
11 January 2025 Management
Five tips for early season slurry spreading
As the window for slurry applications opens in mid-Janaury in designated regions of the country, outlined are some tips to spreading in early spring.
8 January 2025 News
Fewer farms now eligible for TAMS LESS grant aid
Farms stocked between 100kg N/ha and 129kg N/ha must now apply slurry using LESS methods, farms now stocked between130kg/ha and 150kg/ha organic nitrogen are now ineligible to avail of LESS grant aid.
Significant loss of nutrients to water during the closed period
Noel Meehan of the Agricultural Sustainability Support and Advisory Programme highlights water quality issues to consider during the closed period
7 December 2024 Signpost Programme
Steps to improving water quality
Aidan Brennan reports from the Teagasc National Dairy Conference where Pat Dillon presented a paper on water quality.
4 December 2024 Grass & feeding
Woulfe looks for a great leap forward in soil nutrition
Industry veteran talked about the challenges that will come from feeding 10bn.
27 November 2024 News
More time granted to apply for soil sampling scheme
The soil sampling and analysis programme's deadline has been extended to 15 November.
7 November 2024 News
A healthy diet isn't about scrapping meat and milk – Teagasc
A Teagasc nutrition and sustainability researcher has said that a balanced 'meat, two veg' diet is not that which has the highest emissions, especially when accounting for nutrients.
6 November 2024 News
Four days to record slurry movements from 1 January 2025
The Department of Agriculture released a notification for derogation farmers explaining that the deadline for recording 2024 exports of organic nutrients is now 31 December 2024.
2 November 2024 Schemes
Timing of fertiliser applications critical to avoid run-off
Avoiding the application of nutrients at a time when crops aren't growing is one of the key ways farmers can reduce the impact of excess nutrients ending up in waterways, a meeting in west Cork heard.
28 October 2024 News
Over 1,500 farmers to face nitrates penalties
The letters issued to farmers who had been compliant with stocking rate limits over recent years.
23 October 2024 News
Creating water catchment ponds in Tipperary
Creating small sediment ponds is a cost-effective way to improve water quality on Barry Powell’s farm, Kelsey Daly reports.
2 October 2024 Footprint Farmers