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Potato planting surges ahead of maize and beet
Pat O'Toole
Potato growers are taking advantage of the good weather, and maize planting will commence in the coming days.
2 April 2025 From the Tramlines
From the Tramlines: wonderful weather takes some pressure off
The good weather of late has taken some pressure off farmers. There is plenty of work to be done, but the weather is there to do it.
26 March 2025 News
Strict guidelines remain for blight control, new product available
As fungicide products become harder to come by and resistance strains continue to cause problems in potatoes guidelines need to be adhered to.
Spring planting continues
Spring planting is well ahead of recent years and spring barley continues to be planted across the country this week.
26 March 2025 News
Crops extravaganza date set for June
The biennial open day will focus on spraying, new technologies and potato desiccation this year.
12 March 2025 News
Two decades of reliability with Rauch spreaders on large Louth tillage farm
Spreading thousands of acres annually with two Rauch Axis spreaders, Gary Abbott spoke with Gerard Hickey to find out why Rauch has been the spreader brand of choice since 2004.
5 February 2025 Farm machinery
Strengthening the Irish potato and vegetable sectors
Nuffield scholar and agronomist Thomas Murray travelled from Canada to Australia, the US and beyond, to find out what can be done to strengthen the Irish potato and vegetable sectors.
23 December 2024 Feature
Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area
On this week’s podcast, we hear from the National Potato Conference and have all the latest on the new potato blight strain.
28 November 2024 News
Resistance to new blight strain a concern
Irish farmers can learn lessons from others' experience of the Revus and Zorvec-resistant blight strain that emerged in Denmark, the national potato conference heard.
27 November 2024 News
Disease-resistant spuds will not reduce need for chemistry - Teagasc
Chemical protection will remain important for growers even when new, more resistant varieties come on stream, a Teagasc researcher explained.
27 November 2024 News
Consumers 'not hungry' for the most efficient potato varieties
Growers could plant more efficient varieties of potatoes, but the consumer is not looking for them, an agronomist told the national potato conference.
27 November 2024 News
Jon Kenny knew his spuds
D'Unbelievables star Jon Kenny's funeral mass took place in Patrickswell, Co Limerick, on Tuesday.
20 November 2024 News