Dairy
Thinking of taking out the sprayer?
Now is the ideal time for farmers to be taking out the sprayer. It is around this time in the season...
Dairy
Now is the ideal time for farmers to be taking out the sprayer. It is around this time in the season...
Environment
Exceedances in pesticides are on the increase right across Co. Cavan, with a number of incidents identified in June and...
Environment
With increasing detections of MCPA being found in watercourses, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Environmental Protection...
Grass
MCPA monitoring and sampling is continuing in four priority catchments in counties Longford, Kilkenny and Limerick, as part of an...
Video
In this installment of CROPS WATCH, John Mulhare, TerraChem agronomist, talks about herbicide rates
Tillage
As spring crops have been, and are still being sown, late this year, we have yet to find out the...
Tillage
The cut-off point for spring beans is nearing closer. While some growers will sow the crop into early April, many...
Video
Crops-Watch Why are split spray applications so important for fodder beet?
Video
In the second part of the CROPS WATCH series, a collaborative crop monitoring programme between Agriland, Terrachem and Nolan Farming,...
Tillage
“The latest EU ‘Sustainable Use’ Directive relating to spraying, and the accompanying rules and regulations, will force many farmers to seek...
Tillage
Keeping to a maximum speed of 10km/hr and maintaining a boom height of 50cm to 75cm when spraying crops was...
Grass
Applying a herbicide to a new grass ley is the most cost-effective spray you will use on that field, according...
Environment
Under the Sustainable Use Directive (SUD) all boom sprayers greater than 3m and all blast and orchard sprayers must be...
Environment
New restrictions around the conditions regarding the use of glyphosate, the main chemical ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, come into force...
Machinery
Suir sprayers will host a demonstration evening for the mounted and trailed Lemken sprayers at its headquarters in Passage Cross,...
Environment
This weekend is promised to start off cloudy, however there’s milder weather on the way from Sunday and it’s promised...
Agri-Business
The European Commission looks set to re-licence Glyphosate the worlds most widely used and controversial weedkiller. According to reports in...
Tillage
Most farmers have until the spring/summer of 2016 to have completed sprayer training courses, according to the Minister for Agriculture,...