Tillage
Recommended seed rates for 2024/2025 planting season sees change
Teagasc has amended both winter barley and winter wheat recommended seed rates for 2024/2025 in line with projected plant numbers....
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Tillage
Drilling of winter cereals: What are the relevant seed rates?
With drilling of winter cereals having already started, there have been many questions posed about the required seed rates for...
Machinery News
Pottinger extends range of Terrasem seed drills
The well established range of trailed Terrasam seed drills from Pottinger has just been extended by the addition of two...
Tillage
Revising seed rates in tricky conditions
This week Teagasc released a table of suggested seed rates for winter barley varieties in 2020, based on planting in...
Tillage
Get your seed rate right when sowing
As farmers begin to plant winter barley across the country it is important to get the seed rate right. Some...
Tillage
Watch: Calibrating your seed drill is an important task
Tillage farmers are out in force across the country. The past few days have provided great opportunities for all jobs...
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Getting the right seed rate in your spring cereals
Spring sowing is underway in many parts of the country. Seed rate should take in a number of factors including...
Tillage
Malting barley thousand grain weights essential to seed rate
By Eoin Lyons, Teagasc/Boortmalt Joint Programme advisor This year, depending on location, there will be three spring malting barley varieties...
Tillage
Spring beans: What you need to know before planting
Seed may be short, but many farmers will be putting in some beans this spring, some maybe for the first...
Tillage
Huge variation in thousand grain weight...take note when sowing
AgriLand recently published a reminder on how to calculate seed rate. Knowing the thousand grain weight (TGW) is essential in...
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Tillage management: Get off to a good start and calculate seed rate
Many tillage farmers have seed drills out this week. Many more are ordering seed, whichever job you are doing be...
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Sowing spring beans? Here are a few tips
Teagasc held a series of winter crop walks last week and gave some pointers to farmers planning on sowing beans...
Tillage
Oats seed rate should be reduced this season
The thousand grain weight (TGW) of oats is much lower than normal this season and, as a result, the seeding...
Tillage
Tillage management: Oilseed rape planting to move into full swing
The early harvest this season makes it an ideal year for planting winter oilseed rape. The crop – which may...
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Tillage management: Spring barley checklist
Some tillage farmers have been able to take advantage of ploughing and sowing opportunities this week and it looks like...
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Tillage management: Is your seed drill calibrated correctly?
Calibrating your seed drill is an important task. It ensures that the seed drill is sowing at the correct rate...