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Tillage
Tillage Podcast: disease control and advice on liquid N
Siobhán Walsh
On this week’s show, disease control is top of the agenda and we have some advice on applying liquid nitrogen.
26 March 2025 Farm machinery
Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Peter Thomas Keaveney put the latest Amazone Centeya Super 3m drill and disc harrow combo through its paces.
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.
Grain Trends: steady markets as production estimated up
Grain markets are fairly steady at present. This week, world grain production was estimated up.
26 March 2025 Markets
Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control
It’s all happening in the tillage fields at present from sowing to spraying and spreading writes Siobhán Walsh.
26 March 2025 Husbandry
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
Applying organic manures to crops – before and after sowing
This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Meath, Waterford, and Laois where farmers are embracing the use of organic manures on their crops.
26 March 2025 Crops
Agricultural science revision supplement: tillage answers
The sample answers below highlight some of the key points which should be included in your answers.
26 March 2025 News
Greener animal feed labels on the way
An updated document on animal feed labelling could see more feed manufacturers display the environmental impact of their feed on the label.
25 March 2025 News
Ticking the boxes: tillage jobs for the coming weeks
Here are some crops from the southeast last week and some tips on what to have on the to-do list.
23 March 2025 News
New maize herbicide on the block
Principal Forte is a new maize herbicide from Corteva and it covers a wide weed spectrum including blackgrass and annual meadow grass.
23 March 2025 Fodder
Tillage Podcast: walking winter crops and planting update
On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we report from the fields and see what has to be done to winter crops in the coming days and weeks.
20 March 2025 News