Machinery Focus
Machinery Focus: To plough or not plough?
10 years ago, researchers at Harper Adams University in Shropshire in the UK set out on a long-term project to...
Machinery Focus
10 years ago, researchers at Harper Adams University in Shropshire in the UK set out on a long-term project to...
Agri-Business
The annual Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) is due to take place next week with focus on global...
Machinery News
Harper Adams University has long taken the view that management of all aspects of the soil’s condition, not just its...
Environment
The rollout of a carbon farming framework is being stepped up with a major investment in a national soil observatory...
Forestry
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Pippa Hackett, has said that progress...
Environment
Farmers face a ‘geographic lottery’ in terms of soil carbon sequestration, if plans to reward them financially for increasing soil...
biodiversity
16 Irish farms are embarking on a European Union (EU) backed project focused on rebuilding healthy soil. The European Innovation...
Machinery
According to Lemken CEO, Anthony van der Ley, the company has enjoyed double-digit growth in 2021 with more of the...
Grass
A soil strategy for Europe has been launched that will aid the health and productivity of the “magic carpet” beneath...
Tillage
Tillage farmers must soil test and then act on the results obtained, if they are to best manage their crops...
Environment
The European Commission has launched a ‘mission’ to increase soil health in he EU by 2030. Last week, the commission...
Tillage Technical
The impact of tillage farming on soil ecosystems has been likened to creating a ‘gangsters’ paradise’ by one of the...
Opinion
Plans have been unveiled to mark World Soil Day 2021. It takes place on Sunday December 5th highlighting the importance...
Beef
Results from a five-year trial, carried out by scientists at Reading University, confirms that dry matter output from diversified swards...
Environment
The European Commission has launched an observatory for soil health throughout the EU, which will be aimed at “ensuring that...
Environment
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has today (Thursday, November 19) announced that the department is...
Tillage
It’s the 10th of the 10th 2020. If Irish farmers were ever to get a public holiday this should surely...
Tillage
Autumn is an ideal time for soil sampling. Soils are warm and the results will come back to allow for...