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A surge in consumer demand for healthy home-cooked foods has seen a “phenomenal” uplift in fresh potato sales – with increases as high…
Tillage farmers are out in force across the country. The past few days have provided great opportunities for all jobs to be carried…
Spring sowing is underway in many parts of the country. Seed rate should take in a number of factors including the thousand grain…
Cereals – The Arable Event – in the UK is set to go online. A statement from the organisers read: “We understand these…
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is prepared to consider exempting tillage farmers from the two/three-crop requirement under Greening, due to the…
The time of sowing beans is always a hot topic of conversation. Many farmers think twice about planting in April, while others drill…
Tillage farmers face a heavy workload at present, but perspective must be put on this workload. Rushing jobs can result in accidents and…
This week, Boortmalt issued some advice to farmers on sowing rate and nitrogen (N) application rates in the late sowing season in order…
By Eoin Lyons, Teagasc/Boortmalt Joint Programme advisor This year, depending on location, there will be three spring malting barley varieties being distributed by…
Grain markets were, for the most part, in the green this week. LIFFE, MATIF and Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) wheat all finished…
Irish Distillers – which produces whiskey such as Jameson, Midleton and Powers – is partnering with Mervue Laboratories in Cork to produce alcohol…
The weather of the past few months means that many winter crops have not received any fertiliser and while crops may be thin…
It’s that time of the week again for FarmLand – AgriLand‘s weekly video show – which returns today, Thursday, March 19, with the next episode of the…
Plant counts are a very useful task to carry out. At this time of the year – and in a season like this…
Seed may be short, but many farmers will be putting in some beans this spring, some maybe for the first time. Weather is…
Deliveries of fertiliser, feed, seed, diesel and other inputs are taking place all over the country. Advice issued by the Irish Grain and…
Control of grass weeds in winter cereals is most successful when used in the autumn. If a herbicide is not applied pre-emergence, then…
Towards the end of January 2020, AgriLand spoke with a number of fertiliser merchants around the country. The general consensus was that prices…
