Agri-Business
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With sugar beet at the forefront of many tillage farmers’ minds at present, AgriLand looked across the water for some facts...
Agri-Business
With sugar beet at the forefront of many tillage farmers’ minds at present, AgriLand looked across the water for some facts...
Tillage
This time last year, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture published a report entitled the ‘Future of the Tillage Sector...
Tillage
Teagasc estimates that the winter cereal area for this season (2018/2019) has increased by 27,800ha since 2017/2018 – that’s a...
Tillage
Teagasc has just released its Harvest Report for 2018. The report details average crop yields from the harvest just gone....
Beef
For the second instalment of the ‘Farm Smart’ series, we travelled to Rathdowney, Co. Laois, where Brian Campion and his...
Tillage
Fodder beet prices are reflective of demand and this year’s crop yield, which is down significantly. Very little beet is...
Tillage
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Andrew Doyle, will be one of the guest...
Tillage
Aphid counts for the third week of November dropped to 7.6/m², from 14.7/m² the week before. These counts were taken...
Tillage
Farming with nature doesn’t have to be complicated, nor does it have to follow a label like organic or biological....
Tillage
The reaction to Beet Ireland’s proposals from the group’s meetings with growers was largely positive. There were certainly farmers in...
Tillage
Darren Plant’s philosophy is that you can’t manage what you don’t measure. He added that soil mapping can result in...
Tillage
Biological farming was a hot topic this week as the first Biological Farming Conference – run by the National Organic...
Agri-Business
The impact of Brexit could be seen on UK futures this week. The rise in sterling following the announcement of...
Tillage
Mary Deane has recently been presented with an award after being titled Student of the Year for her diploma in Integrated...
Rural Life
Last January AgriLand visited Rory Doyle. His tractor had been stolen and attached behind it was his neighbour’s trailer. In...
Tillage
Soil is a haven for biodiversity and micro-organisms. The world’s soil contains between one quarter and one third of all...
Tillage
Fiona Brennan delivered a few stark messages about our soils as she began to address the Biological Farming Conference –...
Agri-Business
Beet Ireland will host its second meeting with potential growers this week in conjunction with The Irish Grain Growers’ Group...