Rural Life
It will be dry and bright at the start of the week but will turn more unsettled with 'wet and blustery conditions', Met Éireann has warned.
Environment
The NPDWAG and Uisce Éireann are encouraging all pesticide users to help maintain the progress made in protecting Ireland’s drinking water.
Met Éireann has said that a potato blight advisory is currently in place as weather conditions are...
Dairy
In the last few weeks, growth rates have improved drastically and with that has been the emergence of docks in grassland swards which....
Tillage
The IFA has highlighted in Brussels the negative impact on Irish tillage farmers that restrictions on plant protection products are having.
Some weeks ago, the UK launched its Pesticides National Action Plan (NAP) 2025: its objective is to reduce pesticide usage
Teagasc is working closely with the farmer on whose land the first Irish case of glyphosate resistance in Italian ryegrass has been found
Teagasc is confirming that tillage farmers have been taking full advantage of the excellent weather conditions
New figures by the CSO reveal that the total of active substances in plant protection product on the market fell by 16% in 2023.
According to Teagasc, winter oilseed rape crops in many areas seem to have been heavily grazed by pigeons this year
Machinery
There is a new approach to the application of fertiliser emerging and it is one that goes much...
Teagasc is advising that glyphosate cannot be used to desiccate cereal crops prior to harvest; the new regulation kicks in this year.
The Department of Agriculture has granted two temporary herbicide licences for dock control purposes in newly established red clover swards.
Getting on with field work as quickly as possible is the key priority now confronting those tillage farmers with spring cereal crops
Teagasc Crops Specialist, Shay Phelan, has assessed the field work required for winter barley and wheat crops in the coming days.
Agri-Business
The DAFM has issued guidance for sprayer operations to comply with the EU Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive.
Met Éireann has issued new Status Yellow weather warnings for snow and ice for counties Donegal, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo
Rainfall will remain "above average" across the country with the highest amounts in the north and southwest according to Met Éireann.
Following the outcome of EU member states voting on the European Commission’s proposal to renew the use of glyphosate, an Irish farm organisation has called the herbicide "critical" for Irish agriculture.
In a vote today, a proposal to renew the use of glyphosate for ten years did not receive the required majority from EU member states.
The closed period for the application of chemical fertiliser will begin on Friday, September 15, as the deadline is fast approaching.
Tillage Technical
All crops are now responding well to the improved weather conditions and growers need to think about how they are going to control weeds.
According to Teagasc, the first split of nitrogen (N) should be applied to winter barley crops, as a matter of priority
