Tillage
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has published the list of recommended winter oat varieties for the 2025/26 season.
Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) tolerant varieties of winter barley are proving themselves under Irish growing conditions.
The threat posed by yellow rust disease to Irish wheat crops has been characterised as both complex and evolving.
Home-grown spring barley seed could be in short supply next year, according to Goldcrop agronomist, John Dunne.
Every tillage farmer in the country has – quite rightly – been complaining about the poor harvest weather up to this point.
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Dairy Technical
Earlier this week Agriland took a trip down to Solohead farm to take a look at the clover trials taking place.
Howard Farms will hold a cereal crops workshop and farm walk this Wednesday near Killavullen, Co. Cork.
Grass
A Mitchelstown, Co. Cork-based co-operative will play host to an on-farm event focusing on reseeding grassland.
Goldcrop is on the hunt for pea varieties with good standing power. Joe Millerick talked through some of the varieties recently.
Hybrid rye could fit in well to tillage farmers' systems and encourage more fodder production agreements.
Winter barley area has soared in recent years and increased from 56,000ha in 2018 to a massive 80,000ha in 2019.
Grass yield and quality affects the profit left in the farmers' pockets. Teagasc Oak Park breeds varieties to suit Irish conditions.
Oakpark is a new grass variety on the recommended list and very importantly it is an Irish bred variety.
Oakpark is the first grass variety to make it onto the recommended list as part of the Teagasc/Goldcrop marketing agreement.
Donal Fitzgerald - general manager of Goldcrop's arable crops and agri-chemicals business - outlined the current seed situation to AgriLand.
Take-all is the biggest threat to second-winter cereals according to Tim Eaton of Certis, who spoke at Goldcrop's recent technical meeting.
The reduction in winter tillage crop area last season, as well as the summer's drought, resulted in a lower yield from seed crops this year.
A poll at the National Crops Forum showed that 2% of farmers in attendance plan to reduce their acreage of winter cereal crops this season.
A farm walk and demonstration on growing fodder crops this autumn will take place on Wednesday, August 1 in Co. Wexford.
Dairy
A farm walk and demo on growing more fodder this autumn will take place tomorrow, July 27, in Rossa, Doneraile, Co, Cork.
The Goldcrop open day was a great opportunity to get a peak at varieties for next season. Some of the stand-out varieties are listed below.
