Tillage
Tillage: First split of N should be applied now to winter barley
The first split of nitrogen (N) should be applied to winter barley crops, as a matter of priority, according to...
Tillage
The first split of nitrogen (N) should be applied to winter barley crops, as a matter of priority, according to...
Tillage
A Teagasc tillage specialist has confirmed that the time to plant spring beans is now, particularly on heavy ground. Shay...
Tillage
Oilseed rape (OSR) is the only canopy crop grown in Ireland that takes up surplus nitrogen (N) from the soil...
Tillage
Many winter oilseed rape (WOSR) crops had relatively good canopies before Christmas, according to the latest information from Teagasc. But...
Tillage
Drummonds is confirming that sales of winter cereal seed fell back for the 2022/2023 season, relative to the previous year....
Tillage
Teagasc has confirmed that the growing threat of clubroot could hamper the further expansion of Ireland’s oilseed rape (OSR) acreage....
Tillage Technical
The current spell of dry weather will provide tillage farmers with an opportunity to complete spraying programmes that were started...
Tillage
A comparative study of a fungal pathogen of oilseed rape (OSR) in Europe and China using new genetic markers has...
Tillage
The year ahead will be one of significant change for tillage farmers in Ireland with all aspects of their businesses...
Tillage
The end of the 2022 cropping year brings into sharp focus the challenge posed by Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV)...
Tillage
Teagasc has just issued a comprehensive crop management advisory update. In many cases farmers have not been able to get...
Tillage
Acorn Group CEO Barry Larkin believes there is a significant opportunity to grow Ireland’s tillage sector by producing grain for...
Tillage
The area of winter oilseed rape grown in Ireland has increased exponentially over the past number of years. For the...
Tillage
Not seeing the actual presence of light leaf spot in oilseed rape does not mean that the disease is absent...
Tillage
Securing effective weed control in crops – including winter barley, wheat and oilseed rape – is now important according to...
Tillage News
The Harvest Report 2022, published by Teagasc, estimates that the production of cereals was 2.42 million tonnes in 2022. This...
Tillage
Farmers are very aware of the growing costs that are set to confront Irish cereal growers over the next 12...
Tillage
According to Teagasc, pre-emergence herbicides have been shown to be more effective in controlling problem grass weeds such as Bromes,...