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Machinery
Review: Amazone single-disc coulters offers top-class accuracy
Peter Thomas Keaveney
Peter Thomas Keaveney put the latest Amazone Centeya Super 3m drill and disc harrow combo through its paces.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: dry weather drives progress
The beans are in a full six weeks earlier than last year and there is now nothing left to sow.
26 March 2025 Husbandry
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.
Home Farm: Spring work underway
As I write, we are sowing the beans. I was interested to see that our delivery came from Denmark.
19 March 2025 Viewpoints
Two decades of contracting in Carlow
Gary Abbott speaks with first generation agricultural contractor, Stephen Eustace from Co Carlow to find out about day-to-day business and his choice of machinery.
19 March 2025 Contracting
Kverneland replaces DA and S drill
Kverneland has introduced a new generation of one-pass mounted seed drills, replacing the popular DA and S drill models which ceased production last December.
5 March 2025 Farm machinery
Lemken to bring new disc and latest in seeding to Punchestown
Well-known German cultivation and seeding equipment manufacturer Lemken is set to return to this year’s FTMTA show with a large selection of kit.
6 November 2024 Farm machinery
Tillage Management: great scope for post-break crop sowing
This back-end has presented an excellent chance to get winter cereals sown after maize, potatoes or beet have been harvested.
23 October 2024 Husbandry
Grain Trends: more natives prices announced
Centenary Thurles Co-operative has become the latest merchant to announce its 2024 grain prices.
23 October 2024 Markets
BYDV-tolerant barley - to spray or not to spray
This article provides some details on research carried out by Teagasc on winter barley and BYDV control.
13 October 2024 News
Tillage management: sowing, herbicides and maize
Tillage farmers took advantage of the good weather last week to get crops planted. Rain fell heavier in some areas than others.
9 October 2024 Husbandry