Siobhán Walsh

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Siobhán Walsh is from a tillage and beef farm in Co. Laois. She recently completed a PhD, investigating soil nitrogen supply from Irish tillage land, from UCD. She previously completed a masters in crop science and a degree in Animal and Crop Production. The qualified pesticide advisor also worked as a part-time sports reporter for almost seven years with The Laois Nationalist and completed an internship with the Irish Farmers Journal.

Assessing the BYDV risk and planning control
Assessing the BYDV risk and planning control

Early-sown crops of winter barley are at high risk when it comes to barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV), along with...

Tillage farmers take interest in Nobel Prize winners
Tillage farmers take interest in Nobel Prize winners

Two scientists who developed the CRISPR technique most commonly known as gene-editing were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last...

Wheat stocks up and corn stocks lowered
Wheat stocks up and corn stocks lowered

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report on Friday (October...

Waterford Whisky releases 24,000 bottles produced from Irish organic barley
Waterford Whisky releases 24,000 bottles produced from Irish organic barley

The first organic Irish whiskey, certified by the Organic Trust, has been launched by Waterford Distillery. The organic whiskey is...

New app gives assistance in BYDV control
New app gives assistance in BYDV control

Syngenta recently launched its BYDV Assist App for mobile devices. The device will help farmers and agronomists to make decisions...

Dramatic UK wheat decline as barley production increases
Dramatic UK wheat decline as barley production increases

UK wheat production for 2020 was estimated at 10.133 million tonnes in provisional figures released by the Department for Environment,...

20% reduction in plant protection products
20% reduction in plant protection products

Almost 20% of the plant protection products currently available in Ireland will be removed from the market in the near...

Which countries are most likely to impact on your grain prices?
Which countries are most likely to impact on your grain prices?

Last week the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) outlined some of the key producers and exporters of wheat and...

Grain price: Jump in the middle of the week
Grain price: Jump in the middle of the week

Grain markets took the rise farmers had been waiting for this week ahead of the release of the Word Agricultural...

Farmers know today’s date…It’s 10-10-20
Farmers know today’s date…It’s 10-10-20

It’s the 10th of the 10th 2020. If Irish farmers were ever to get a public holiday this should surely...

Revising seed rates in tricky conditions
Revising seed rates in tricky conditions

This week Teagasc released a table of suggested seed rates for winter barley varieties in 2020, based on planting in...

Convergence could render some tillage farms non-viable
Convergence could render some tillage farms non-viable

The Annual Review and Outlook for Agriculture, Food and the Marine 2020, which was released today (October 8), highlighted the...

Rapid diagnostic test for Botrytis launched
Rapid diagnostic test for Botrytis launched

Mologic has launched a new rapid test for Botrytis. BotrytisAlert uses lateral flow technology to enable earlier disease intervention and...

World potato congress in Ireland postponed to 2022
World potato congress in Ireland postponed to 2022

The World Potato Congress which was due to take place in Ireland in 2021 has been postponed until 2022. The...

Potato prices: Rain halts progress in the fields
Potato prices: Rain halts progress in the fields

Wet weather has stopped and delayed lifting of potato crops across the country. There was a big rush on farms...

Plenty of dry weather needed for winter planting
Plenty of dry weather needed for winter planting

Rainfall warnings put an end to or delayed the winter sowing campaign for another while in most places. However, in...

Irish oat drinks are also available…think food miles
Irish oat drinks are also available…think food miles

There has been plenty of talk about the recent bashing of dairy and beef on RTÉ’s ‘What Planet are you...

Bank of Ireland launches debit card made from corn
Bank of Ireland launches debit card made from corn

Bank of Ireland launched Ireland’s first bio-sourced Visa Debit Card last week. The new card is composed of 82% bio-sourced...