Tillage
The Agriculture and Horticulture Board (AHDB) has announced a new collaboration between some of the...
Given the delayed harvest, chances to drill oilseed rape (OSR) were more limited this year. However, slug damage doesn’t seem to be an issue
The pressure is on to allow farmers with lying straw to switch fields for the purposes of the straw incorporation measure.
Tillage News
Given the unseasonably high temperatures, Teagasc is strongly advising growers to check for disease levels in rape and cereal crops now.
The Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board has launched its recommended lists for cereals and oilseed varieties.
Teagasc is confirming that this year’s cereal harvest is more or less wrapped up in many parts of the country and has been the best harvest for some time
Tillage Technical
Catch crops and OSR are, increasingly, seen as ways of expanding the rotations followed by Irish cereal growers, according to Teagasc.
The fungus responsible for light leaf spot, an important disease of oilseed rape, is showing increasing resistance to azole fungicides
Winter oilseed rape has been performing very well and has been described as one of the better stories so far this harvest.
There is scope for Irish farmers to exploit faster and lower-cost establishment systems, such as strip-till.
Research has been carried out in the UK to identify varieties of oilseed rape (OSR) that are more attractive to insect pollinators.
All Irish cereal crops have the potential to yield very heavily this year with some wheats on target to deliver 6t/ac
Barley yields may well be down by up to a quarter of a tonne per acre this year
There are tremendous prospects for young people from Ireland to establish attractive share farming opportunities in western Poland
Dow AgroSciences have launched a new herbicide for winter and spring oilseed rape.
Now is the time for growers to get on top of the challenges for oilseed rape and winter barley crops, according to Teagasc tillage specialist Tim O’Donovan.
According to the HGCA resistance to pyrethroid-based insecticides in UK populations of cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) is widespread.
80% of the total UK cereal and oilseed rape area has been harvested according to latest reports from the HGCA.
The main cereal harvest is well over 70% complete at this stage according to Teagasc.
Research has confirmed that pyrethroid resistant cabbage stem flea beetles are present in the UK
Other
Ways to improve the nutritional value of rapeseed and meal for non-ruminant livestock have been explored as part of a new HGCA research review
Researchers at the Institute of Food Research in the UK are looking at how to turn straw from oilseed rape into biofuel.
