Beef
Soil fertility: How is your farm for lime; or do you know?
The recent dry weather – mixed with some showers of rain – has provided ideal conditions for spreading lime. Despite...
Beef
The recent dry weather – mixed with some showers of rain – has provided ideal conditions for spreading lime. Despite...
Dairy
Little by little progress is being made – across the country – on soil fertility levels. Speaking at the precise...
Grass
Teagasc has claimed that soil fertility is showing “some improvement” after years of stagnation, according to its 2018 annual review...
Grass
Only 15% of Irish dairy farms had optimum soil fertility levels in 2017 and 47% of grassland farms required lime. Where...
N.Ireland
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is urging farmers to start sampling their soil now. Only...
Dairy
Of the dairy farm soil samples analysed by Teagasc in 2017, just 15% had optimal soil fertility levels as indicated...
Grass
Delegates arrived in Kilkenny this week for Teagasc’s Soil Fertility Conference, where the importance of optimal soil fertility levels were...
Grass
By Kevin McMenamin, drystock advisor, Longford Town Albert Einstein once said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...
Grass
Healthy soils are said to be the engine driving production on any farm; but just how much could poor soil...
Environment
Three Irish colleges are set to take part in a major European project in soil nutrient sustainability that will seek...
Agri-Business
Farmers who own ground need to take more responsibility for maintaining land fertility, a senior agri-business manager has warned. Speaking...
Grass
At last night’s consultation meeting on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy in Co. Meath, farmers were urged to...
Beef
Farming in Portlaoise, Co. Laois, Paul Delaney – a beef and tillage farmer – rented 12.5ha of land in 2015....
Tillage
For decades, the debate on whether to incorporate or spread phosphorus (P) has been talked about at tillage conferences and...
Sheep
A worrying trend has emerged, which suggests that the soils on drystock farms have inadequate fertility levels to grow grass....
Dairy
There’s huge potential to increase the amount of grass grown and utilised on Irish dairy farms, delegates at the Teagasc...
Grass
Irish drystock farmers are lagging behind their dairy counterparts when it comes to growing and utilising grass. Teagasc estimates that...
Dairy
As we plan to extend the grazing season, increasing the average farm cover (AFC) is now on most of our...