Tillage
"It's great to have lovely shiny technology, but it has got to make money," explained Kevin McDonnell, who addressed the ITLUS conference.
"Tractors are no longer self-propelled drawbars; they're now self-propelled modems," Darragh Mullin stated at the ITLUS conference last week.
Cara Augustenborg’s presentation at the ITLUS's conference on Wednesday, December 4, focused on climate change and emissions.
Cara Augustenberg would like to talk more about emissions from transport rather than agriculture. She spoke at a tillage conference.
Bill Callanan acknowledged the low contribution that the tillage sector makes to climate change at today's ITLUS conference.
"It's a sector that I've been concerned about for some time," that's how Gerry Boyle started his presentation ITLUS conference this week.
The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society is celebrating 50 years in 2019 and over those years the tillage industry has faced many challenges.
The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society (ITLUS) is continuing its 50-year anniversary celebrations at its winter conference this December.
Earthworm populations are sensitive to tillage, but using organic manures can help to increase earthworm populations under tillage.
In order to maintain soil health all three pillars need to be adhered to and any pillar can only partially compensate for neglecting another.
Using organic manures on your tillage farm isn't as simple as just spreading and incorporating, according to Dermot Forristal of Teagasc.
In recent weeks and months suspected botulism has caused serious problems on Irish farms. It was one subject covered at the ITLUS winter conference.
The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society will hold its annual winter conference next Thursday (December 6) in the Clanard Court Hotel, Athy.
'Non-metal tools of tillage farming' is the theme of this year's Irish Tillage and Land Use (ITLUS) conference.
