Tillage Technical
Tillage: Post-harvest stubble management
Post-harvest stubble management systems can be used to get on top of many herbicide-resistant grassweeds. It is part of an...
Stubble Cultivation
Tillage News
Tillage: Straw dilemma now facing cereal growers
Tillage specialists have indicated that there is a ‘straw dilemma’ now facing cereal growers. Large tonnages of the material have...
Tillage News
Minister must engage on shallow cultivation extension request - TD
Sinn Féin spokesperson for agriculture, Claire Kerrane has called on Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue to...
Tillage Technical
Tillage: How to test for take-all using a plastic cup
Take-all is a disease that is becoming a major challenge on Irish cereal farms. Black patches in stubble can be an...
Tillage
Nitrates Directive: Stubble cultivation regulations
The Nitrates Directive is designed to prevent pollution of surface waters and groundwater from agricultural sources and to protect and...
Machinery News
New knife roller from Pottinger accelerates decomposition
Pottinger has added another tool to its range of tillage implements in the shape of a rotary knife mounted as...
Environment
Government urged to suspend changes to rules on winter stubble
BirdWatch Ireland has today (Tuesday, July 5) warned heritage minister Darragh O’Brien, Minister of State for heritage, Malcolm Noonan and...
Machinery News
High work rate from Kuhn's 12m cultivator
If a high work rate from a 600hp tractor and stubble cultivator is at the top of your list of...
Tillage
Take the opportunity to plant when combines are parked
Storm Ellen and the heavy rain that it brought put a stop to harvesting, and while tillage farmers await the...
Tillage
Tillage management: Early harvest leaves time for stubble grubbing
The early harvest may have contributed to reduced yields, but the positives also have to be looked at. Clearing fields...
Tillage
Farmers must adopt a 'zero-tolerance policy' on black grass
Grass weeds are becoming more of a problem on tillage farms – according to Teagasc – and bromes, canary grass,...