Tillage
Does your soil need lime this autumn?
Getting soil pH right is essential. Soils with optimum pH levels are more efficient when it comes to the uptake...
Tillage
Getting soil pH right is essential. Soils with optimum pH levels are more efficient when it comes to the uptake...
Agri-Business
Farmers within Nitrates Derogation are being assured that there is presently no disruption to the supply of ground agricultural limestone...
Sheep
As we edge closer to the mid-season lambing period, now is the time for farmers to stock up on essential...
Beef
The recent dry weather – mixed with some showers of rain – has provided ideal conditions for spreading lime. Despite...
Grass
The dry weather is providing ideal ground conditions for lime spreading, which is essential to correct soil pH. Soil pH...
Grass
Delegates arrived in Kilkenny this week for Teagasc’s Soil Fertility Conference, where the importance of optimal soil fertility levels were...
Grass
By Kevin McMenamin, drystock advisor, Longford Town Albert Einstein once said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...
Grass
Delegates at today’s SHEEP 2018 event in Teagasc Athenry heard that lime is key for maintaining soil fertility and grass...
Beef
The power of lime is often underestimated on beef farms in Ireland. By correcting soil pH, it has the potential...
Grass
At last night’s consultation meeting on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy in Co. Meath, farmers were urged to...
Sheep
A worrying trend has emerged, which suggests that the soils on drystock farms have inadequate fertility levels to grow grass....
Grass
Irish drystock farmers are lagging behind their dairy counterparts when it comes to growing and utilising grass. Teagasc estimates that...
Grass
90% of the soils analysed by Teagasc in 2015 had sub-optimal levels of soil pH, phosphorus (P) and potassium (K)....
Grass
There was an 8% increase in ground limestone usage between 2015 and 2016, according to the Department of Agriculture, Food...
Grass
Reseeding is a costly exercise and it can result in an outlay of approximately €250-350/ac to complete. However, when done...
Environment
Lime is one of the most important nutrients any farmer can spread on their land to address soil pH issues,...
Environment
Farmers should take every opportunity to spread lime on their land to address soil acidity issues, Teagasc’s Ger Courtney has...
Other
In recent years there has been a steady decline in soil pH on Irish farms and currently close to 60%...