Environment
Climate Action Plan: Maximum nitrogen limits review by mid-2024
A review of maximum nitrogen (N) limits and providing options to farmers to voluntarily reduce livestock numbers are among the...
Environment
A review of maximum nitrogen (N) limits and providing options to farmers to voluntarily reduce livestock numbers are among the...
Environment
The Agriculture Water Quality Working Group, chaired by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM), has agreed that the...
Agri-Business
Cattle only nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) statements for the period of January 1 to November 30, 2023, are now...
Tillage
Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS) has recently compiled a series of guidelines, advising farmers on how they can make...
Dairy
European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius has confirmed that Ireland’s nitrate reduction must be on schedule. A...
Rural Life
Total fertiliser sales in 2023 have fallen by 18% to 1,135,860 tonnes compared to 2022, according to new data from...
Tillage
Getting the early agronomy of winter crops right is crucial a recent tillage conference heard. Seedtech director, Dr. Tim O’Donovan,...
Agri-Business
Nitrogen use efficiency in the food system is between 5% and 15% which indicates “huge” losses to the environment, a...
Agri-Business
Shrinking farm margins have left farmers “price-sensitive” to fertiliser purchases despite the fall in prices during the first half of...
Dairy
Cattle-only nitrogen and phosphorous (N and P) statements from January 1, to August 31, 2023 are now available online the...
Environment
Losses from the nitrogen cycle “cannot be eliminated” so the livestock sector needs to minimise them and hold more nitrogen...
Dairy Technical
The final date for spreading chemical fertiliser in 2023 is September 14 – which is a little over two weeks...
Agri-Business
The use of multi-species swards lowers the levels of nitrogen (N) fertiliser application on farms by at least 60%, according...
Agri-Business
The current agriculture system in the Netherlands “has reached its limits” and change is needed, according to one of the...
Tillage Technical
Hybrid barleys are well recognised for their high biomass potential. This is an evolving, good news story for Irish grain...
Environment
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed that “processing work is ongoing” in relation to the...
Environment
A 25% reduction in the use of chemical nitrogen fertiliser in Ireland by 2030 is achievable “with limited adverse impact...
Environment
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has been accused of hiding “behind a committee” on the issue...