Environment
Nitrogen and water quality - all you need to know
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a report based on analyses of catchments where nitrogen concentrations in water were...
Environment
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a report based on analyses of catchments where nitrogen concentrations in water were...
Dairy Technical
Last week saw the start of the silage season beginning on many farms across the country and many farmers are...
Tillage
The Potash Development Association (PDA) has issued an update on how best to meet the fertiliser and nutritional needs of...
Dairy Technical
Multi-species swards have the ability to grow 11t of dry matter (DM) with no chemical nitrogen (N), but have they...
Dairy Technical
Actions and decisions made now will determine the quality and quantity of silage in next year’s pit and bales. As...
Environment
On grassland farms, having enough grass available for livestock to graze is crucial to ensuring a profitable enterprise, Teagasc notes....
Sheep
During a recent webinar about grazing management on sheep farms, Philip Creighton of Teagasc spoke about the benefits of applying...
Dairy
To get the best response to nitrogen (N) in spring, the soil temperature needs to be 5°C and rising (at...
Tillage
Teagasc tillage advisors are confirming that most winter barley crops are looking well at the present time. Crops sown out...
Beef
Nitrogen and Phosphorous (N and P) statements for the year 2020 are now available online, the Department of Agriculture, Food...
Dairy
With the closed period coming to an end on farms in Zone A, and with the remaining Zones due to...
Dairy
The expansion of the Irish dairy sector in recent years has increased the land area allocated to dairy farming. With...
Dairy
Reducing the application rate of nitrogen (N) fertiliser by 25kg and 50kg N/ha could reduce farm profitability by 5% and...
Dairy
The efficient use of fertiliser nitrogen to improve sustainability was the topic of discussion at the first of four online...
Tillage
A total of 1.547 million tonnes of fertiliser were sold from October 1, 2018, to September 30, 2019. This equates...
Environment
Interim nitrogen and phosphorus statements (N and P Statements) for the period January 2020 to April 2020 are now available...
Tillage
As spring barley crops are appearing across the country, farmers have been and will be applying nitrogen (N) to these...
Tillage
Tillage farmers are extremely busy at present planting spring crops. Sowing of malting barley is well underway across the country....