Environment
Mitigation measures farmers can take to reduce GHG emissions
Teagasc’s Gary Lanigan has highlighted a number of mitigation measures that can be taken by farmers to reduce greenhouse gas...
Environment
Teagasc’s Gary Lanigan has highlighted a number of mitigation measures that can be taken by farmers to reduce greenhouse gas...
Environment
Climate change will impact “all aspects” of Irish agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned today (Thursday, January 25) as...
Tillage
A new chemistry to control fungal diseases in crops has just been announced. The joint breakthrough, by Syngenta Crop Protection...
Tillage
Planning for the tillage year ahead is an obvious priority at this time for those farmers committed to growing crops....
Tillage
A team of researchers in the US have tested ‘laser scarecrows’ that use light to deter birds from crops. Researchers...
Tillage News
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has ruled out the possibility of extending the Unharvested Crop Loss...
Tillage
Teagasc tillage specialist, Shay Phelan, has highlighted a number of fieldwork priorities for tillage farmers, which should be addressed in...
Tillage
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) have confirmed there have been 277 applications received for the Unharvested...
Tillage
Wet years will always flag up issues that relate to poorly drained land on tillage farms. Undoubtedly, 2023 was one...
Tillage
The Teagasc 2023 Harvest Report has confirmed the impact of the poor weather and ground conditions on crops over the...
Tillage
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) grain committee chairman, Kieran McEvoy, has welcomed the €7 million tillage support funding announced by agriculture...
Tillage
The importance of crop establishment cannot be stressed enough. It is the most critical period within all tillage life-cycles, as...
Tillage
A new report is indicating that additional crop land, equivalent to that already farmed in Brazil, will be required over...
Opinion
In my opinion, the recent AgriCare tillage conference helped to reset the ‘optimism’ button for farmers committed to growing crops...
Tillage
One upside to the staggered harvest of 2023 was the opportunity of getting cover crops in early at Teagasc Oak...
Machinery
Cover crops are becoming an important part of the cropping cycle. Pottinger is further catering for their timely sowing by...
Tillage
The Irish Grain Growers Group (IGGG) has confirmed that it is “confident” that a mechanism for financial support will be...
Tillage
Teagasc tillage specialists are reporting a north-south split in terms of autumn planting of cereal crops in recent weeks. Surprisingly,...