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Tillage Podcast: potatoes, harvest yields and winter area
Siobhán Walsh
On this week’s podcast, we hear from the National Potato Conference and have all the latest on the new potato blight strain.
27 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.
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
Finding NI farming’s place in Europe
An event focussed on NI farming was held in Brussels last week. Peter McCann reports
13 November 2024 Northern Ireland
Loss of key spray a ‘huge loss’ to potato growers
Attendees of the Irish Farmers Journal Tillage Day in Kildare on Thursday heard how the ongoing loss of key sprays and chemistry in the sector is having an impact on costs.
7 November 2024 News
Tillage Podcast: UK visit, prices and potatoes
This week’s show covers potatoes, Tillage Day and blackgrass control in the UK, as well as all the tillage news.
31 October 2024 News
Potatoes harvest edges past halfway mark
The potato harvest is set to be reduced by 15-20% this year as a challenging year takes its toll, write James Hanley and Stephen Robb.
30 October 2024 Crops
Scheme for investment in commercial horticulture opens
Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue and Minister of State Senator Pippa Hackett announced the opening of the 2025 scheme.
23 October 2024 News
Commission bans herbicide for use on potato crops
The herbicide is currently used for pre- and post-emergence spraying. French farmers have condemned the move.
17 October 2024 News
Country Crest sign €100m deal with Tesco
The North Co Dublin operation has been in partnership with Tesco for 28 years and this new contract will run until September 2027.
16 October 2024 News