Dairy Technical
No impact of urease inhibitors on soil microbiome - study
Urease inhibitors found in protected urea have no significant effect on fungal and bacterial communities, according to a new study...
Dairy Technical
Urease inhibitors found in protected urea have no significant effect on fungal and bacterial communities, according to a new study...
Dairy Technical
High chemical-fertiliser prices have placed a focus on obtaining the best nitrogen use efficiency on dairy farms. Although fertiliser prices...
Tillage
Malting barley crops sown out in March should not need an insecticide to control Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV). That...
Dairy
Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association (ICMSA) president, Pat McCormack believes that the uptake for the proposed Food Dairy Vision Group...
Tillage Technical
Most winter wheat crops around the country are reportedly looking well at the present time – a consequence of the...
Tillage Technical
April is the month when winter barley crops develop the fastest and the demand for plant nutrition is at its...
CAP / Schemes
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that supports will be vital to enable farmers to comply with the series...
Tillage
Growers across the country should be starting to think about nitrogen (N) for rape crops around now. Speaking on the...
Tillage
Teagasc tillage specialist, Shay Phelan, has been out in the fields, assessing the early-spring fertiliser priorities of oilseed rape crops....
Agri-Business
Yara has today (Tuesday, February 8, 2022) reported improved fourth-quarter results as increases in prices more than offset the impact...
Tillage Technical
Teagasc’s Richie Hackett has confirmed that strengthening grain prices will, to some extent, “deaden” the impact of the nitrogen (N)...
Tillage
Potash and nitrogen (N) interactions have been shown, over many years, to be key determinants of crop growth and final...
Agri-Business
Teagasc is predicting a significant rise across all farm input costs in 2022. This follows a 12-month period of upward...
Tillage Technical
The potential to grow winter malting barley varieties in Ireland was highlighted at a webinar, hosted by Teagasc earlier this...
Dairy Technical
We have now entered September, and with that, the closed period for chemical nitrogen (N) is fast approaching – meaning...
Environment
Farmers can take a number of measures to help both water quality and, in some cases, their own pockets, according...
Environment
Nitrogen levels are too high in almost half of all Irish rivers – and a quarter of Irish groundwaters –...
Dairy Technical
The benefits of including white clover in grass swards has been noted by several research trials carried out by Teagasc...