Tillage
The 2025 Teagasc National Tillage Conference featured a specific debate on the very real threat posed by pesticide resistance
Irish tillage incomes are set to rise significantly in 2025, according to Teagasc director Prof. Frank O’Mara.
Putting Integrated Pest Management (IPM) first was a key, take-home message from the 2025 Teagasc National Tillage Conference.
Tillage soils represent significant sumps for stored carbon. However, adding to these carbon levels will be a slow process.
Teagasc’s 2025 National Tillage Conference takes place on Wednesday next (January 29) in the Lyrath Hotel on the outskirts of Kilkenny City.
The annual Teagasc National Tillage Conference will take place on Wednesday, January 31 at...
Teagasc’s Dr. Steven Kildea gave an update on new wheat disease control options at the 2023 National Tillage Conference.
The National Tillage Conference marked the launch of the Teagasc ‘Crops and Returns’ 2023 information booklet.
The growing importance of crops within the Irish economy was a recurring theme of the Teagasc virtual tillage conference for 2022
Specialist tillage farms had the second highest family farm income of the farming sectors in Ireland in 2017, at just under €37,158.
The NFU is quite clear we do not want a hard Brexit. At best it would be high risk for our industry and at worst it would be catastrophic.
49% of Irish tillage farmers see world grain prices as the biggest long-term threat to their farm business.
The Protein Aid Scheme - which was worth almost €3 million to tillage farmers in 2017 - is set to continue this year, the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture announced today.
Challenging circumstances have been in place in the Irish tillage sector over the last number of years, according to Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Andrew Doyle.
The Irish tillage sector has experienced significant challenges over the past several years, according to Teagasc's Prof. Gerry Boyle.
There is potential to use more Irish-grown beans in animal feedstuffs, according to Teagasc's Dermot Forristal.
Dairy
The Maize Industry Group hopes to bring tillage and dairy and beef farmers together with the introduction of a new maize contract.
Poor returns, due to low cereal yields and prices, has seen many tillage farmers struggle to hold onto their Basic Payments in 2016, according to Teagasc's Frank O'Meara.
Farmers who fail to use crop rotations could see a negative impact on the profitability and sustainability of tillage systems.
Discussion groups offer tillage farmers a relatively easy and practical way of gaining new information, skills and solutions.
Resistance to fungicide sprays in wheat crops is becoming a real issue in Ireland, according to Teagasc's Steven Kildea.
Irish tillage farmers can learn from the mistakes made by UK farmers in regards to the control of black grass, according to the ADAS's Sarah Cook.
Six tillage experts from Ireland and the UK will hold the floor for this year’s Teagasc national tillage conference on January 28.
