Agri-Business
Tirlán announces incentives to encourage use of protected urea
Tirlán has confirmed that it will continue its support of lower-emissions fertiliser for the coming season and support farmers to...
Agri-Business
Tirlán has confirmed that it will continue its support of lower-emissions fertiliser for the coming season and support farmers to...
Environment
The Irish government could potentially step in to mandate the spreading of protected urea if farmers do not voluntarily commit...
Environment
The Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) has said that the government must be proactive on ensuring there are sufficient supplies...
Tillage
The Fertilizer Association of Ireland (FAI) has just published a new technical bulletin entitled ‘Improving farm nitrogen use efficiency’ in...
Environment
Teagasc’s Gary Lanigan has highlighted a number of mitigation measures that can be taken by farmers to reduce greenhouse gas...
Agri-Business
Tirlán has confirmed today (Wednesday, February 7) that €6 million will be paid to 4,700 farmer shareholders as part of...
Environment
According to Teagasc, chemical fertiliser usage on Irish farms – grassland and tillage – continues to decline. Recently published figures...
Agri-Business
Grassland Agro is confirming that retail standard urea price this week is around €850-860/t in 500kg bags on pallets, and stocks seem to...
Tillage Technical
Land, machinery and nitrogen fertiliser, and whether to consider urea, are the big ticket items that farmers have to address...
Tillage
According to Teagasc, there is increasing interest among tillage farmers in switching from calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) to protected urea...
N.Ireland
According to the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) advisors in Northern Ireland, farmers can take a number...
Environment
The new Climate Action Plan has identified eight key targets for the agriculture sector including a 300,000t cap on chemical...
Environment
A targeted reduction of fertiliser use and a shift towards protected urea can ease the pressure to significantly cut methane...
Dairy Technical
Protected urea is “low-hanging fruit” for farmers to reduce emissions on farms, according to Jonathan Herron, a researcher from Teagasc...
Dairy Technical
Urease inhibitors found in protected urea have no significant effect on fungal and bacterial communities, according to a new study...
Dairy News
Farmers will have to embrace the use of protected urea over calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) fertiliser, according to Pat McCormack,...
Opinion
The significance of last week’s confirmation by Teagasc, that the use of protected urea does not lead to residues appearing...
Dairy
The results of a Teagasc trial on protected urea have been published, which show “further reassurance that protected urea can...