Tillage
Diary dates: Keep up with the latest trial work at upcoming tillage events
Open days are kicking off as pressure begins to ease on tillage farms for a short while. Most final fungicides...
Tillage
Open days are kicking off as pressure begins to ease on tillage farms for a short while. Most final fungicides...
Tillage
Aphids certainly aren’t a problem for crops at the minute. But it is interesting to compare aphid counts with the...
Tillage
In farming, the conventional and organic world might not seem the easiest bedfellows, but they met in peace for a...
Tillage
Cereal production, in Ireland, for 2017 was up on last year at 2.3 million tonnes, as spring barley reached record...
Opinion
This week’s Oireachtas report on the future of Irish tillage was extremely timely. However, in my opinion, it failed to...
Tillage
From now on is the ideal time to spray oilseed rape crops for weeds and disease, according to Dr. Tom...
Opinion
The malsters’ treatment of their contracted barley growers is nothing short of scandalous. One would have thought that the difficult...
Tillage
Volga-Donselhozinvest Russia – an agricultural group – farms 450,000ha in Russia. Last week, Richard Valentine Willows outlined the workings of...
Tillage
Founded by Iryna Ivanova, Agroscope Ukraine is a national distributor of agricultural inputs in Ukraine. It encompasses 2,300 farmers, 75 agronomists...
N.Ireland
UK cereal farmers are being urged to proactively plan for Brexit and not to “wait and see” what happens. Tillage...
Tillage
This week Dairygold has finalised its cereal prices for harvest 2017, with prices remaining “sluggish” due to another “large global...
Tillage
The harvest is ongoing in the north-east of the country at present. Spring crops such as barley, wheat, oats, oilseed rape...
Tillage
By Siobhan Walsh The winter cereal recommended lists for 2018 were published last week by the Department of Agriculture, Food...
Tillage
As harvest ’17 continues to progress, a number of growers have said that oilseed rape will be their top-performing crop...
Machinery
Cereals 2017 is one of the biggest trade shows in either Ireland or the UK specifically focused on the tillage sector....
N.Ireland
Agri-Food and Biosciences’ Institute (AFBI) plant scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing threat posed by Black Grass and...
Tillage
The campaign group Uplift is asking Irish people to join the ongoing global efforts to ban glyphosate. The pressure group...
Tillage
Last year’s UK-based ‘Cereals’ event, for tillage farmers, featured an 8m long x 1.5m deep soil pit, demonstrating the impact...