Tillage
Spring 2024 planting - the contractors’ perspective
Contractors play a key role on most tillage farms. This principle has been further endorsed during the spring 2024 planting...
beet
Tillage
Late spring cropping choices for tillage farmers
With the weather fast improving, many tillage farmers will be looking for advice on late spring cropping choices. According to...
Tillage Technical
Tillage: Budget time for spring crops
There is a range of decisions relating to spring crops that farmers must make over the coming days. But a...
Tillage Technical
Phosphate and potash application rates always crop dependent
Phosphate (P) and potash (K) do not follow the same principle as nitrogen (N) when determining the appropriate application rates....
Tillage
BYDV now impacting many spring barley crops
Teagasc is confirming that Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) is now impacting many spring barley crops across the country. But...
Tillage Technical
Will merchants and banks be willing to finance Tillage Incentive Scheme?
With maize crops costing up to €1,000/ac to grow, will merchants and the banks be willing to finance the Tillage...
Tillage
Tillage Incentive Scheme – all you need to know
The Tillage Incentive Scheme (TIS) will encourage farmers to sow additional tillage crops in 2022 on land that was in...
Tillage Technical
Management priorities for spring-sown crops
Given the unavailability of desmedipham to deliver early weed control in fodder beet and spring-sown crops, Teagasc is advising the...
Tillage
CROPS WATCH: Smart beet due fungicide
TerraChem agronomist, Margaret Murphy, is very with happy with the crop of Conviso smart beet in this installment of CROPS...
Tillage
CROPS WATCH: Have you been feeding your beet crop?
Beet crops across the country should now have herbicide applications complete and as the season goes on nutrition and disease...
Tillage
Crop walking: Rain welcome for spring crops as maize recovers from frost
Mark Hosford had a busy week this week as spring crops hit GS30 and above. The crops in east Cork...
Tillage
CROPS WATCH: The new beet on the block is 'smart'
Have you ever heard of ‘Smart Beet’? In this installment of the Crops Watch series in association with TerraChem Margaret...
Tillage
CROPS WATCH: Keep ahead of weeds in beet to ensure a clean crop
In this installment of the Crops Watch series in association with TerraChem, Margaret Murphy gives some advice on controlling weeds...
Tillage
Crop walking: Beet weeds top of the agenda in Co. Laois
Martin McDonald of Stradbally Town and Country is busy walking beet crops these days. In this installment of the Crop...
Tillage
What beet variety will you grow this season?
Sowing beet will be on many people’s minds over the coming days and weeks. There are plenty of varieties to...
Dairy
Rape/kale hybrid, kale or beet: Which is the best fodder crop for me?
Over the last number of years, particularly after last year’s drought, the number of farmers growing fodder crops has increased....
Tillage
CROPS WATCH: Beet struggling to take off...weed control essential
Beet crops got off to a good start around the country, but a few cold days and frosty nights left...
Tillage
'ArableApril': Malt in Mayo; maize and beet sowing countrywide
‘ArableApril’ is drawing to a close, but there is no shortage of work on tillage farms across the country. The...