Tillage
Advice: Spring cropping options for growers
The April tillage management notes from Teagasc represent a comprehensive and updated advice source on all spring cropping options. The...
Tillage
The April tillage management notes from Teagasc represent a comprehensive and updated advice source on all spring cropping options. The...
Tillage
Weed control measures have yet to be implemented in many winter oilseed rape crops. There has been a significant trend...
Tillage
Teagasc is confirming the importance for grain growers to get on with weed control measures in winter cereal crops, as...
Tillage
It is now widely recognised that weeds adapt within a tillage system at various levels, and in various ways. This...
Tillage
For those cereal crops currently in the ground, almost all are in need of attention, where weed control is concerned....
Tillage
This season has proved a difficult time in terms of getting winter cereals established, as a result of poor weather...
Tillage Technical
Research has confirmed that mid-October is the optimal time to sow winter wheat crops under Irish conditions. Teagasc tillage specialist,...
Machinery Focus
In these months leading up to Agritechnica, Kverneland is one of many companies keen to get the news of its...
Tillage Technical
Hybrid barleys are well recognised for their high biomass potential. This is an evolving, good news story for Irish grain...
Tillage
Teagasc PhD student Jack Jameson took part in a recent Tillage Edge podcast to discuss the crop establishment options that...
Tillage
According to Teagasc research scientist Vijaya Bhaskar, there are five different brome types in Ireland, of direct interest to farmers:...
Tillage
Forage maize crops are progressing well throughout Ireland at the present time, according to Maizetech’s, John Foley. “Crops are responding...
Tillage
Farmers must commit to using different herbicide strategies each year, if they want to prevent weed resistance becoming an issue...
Tillage
Resistance demonstrated by both grass and broadleaf weeds to applied herbicides is on the rise, according to Teagasc. Moreover, this...
Tillage Technical
All crops are now responding well to the improved weather conditions that have impacted across the country over the past...
Dairy Technical
This time of year, if conditions allow, is a good time to look at controlling any weed issues that may...
Tillage
Early March-sown spring barley crops will not require an aphicide. However, those drilled later in the month, and which emerge...
Tillage Technical
The current spell of dry weather will provide tillage farmers with an opportunity to complete spraying programmes that were started...