Tillage
The rain that has fallen over the last 24 hours in the south east will have, undoubtedly, helped spring barley crops.
The Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine has published the 2025 spring wheat and spring oat recommended lists.
Fieldwork continues apace on all tillage farms. Ground conditions are good and crops are responding well to the improved weather conditions.
The challenges that confront Irish tillage at the present time are manifold in nature. And recent published figures confirm this trend
Teagasc has confirmed the benefits of rolling spring barley and wheat crops. Three factors come into play.
Getting on with field work as quickly as possible is the key priority now confronting those tillage farmers with spring cereal crops
Contractors play a key role on most tillage farms. This principle has been further endorsed during the spring 2024 planting season.
Teagasc is confirming that 90% of spring tillage planting work has now been completed in the south of the country and across the midlands.
Teagasc’s head of crop knowledge transfer, Michael Hennessy, is confirming that spring planting conditions have improved dramatically
The conundrum for tillage growers which now arises - do they push ahead with the seed they have already purchased?
Tillage specialists are confirming that the opportunity to get viable crops of spring beans, wheat, and oats into the ground is fast reducing.
N.Ireland
Little to no winter crop has been sown out on farms, according to College of Agriculture Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) crop specialists..
The coming days will see tillage farmers push to get 2023 fungicide programmes significantly advanced across all cereal crops.
Teagasc has published its latest crop update for 2023. It confirms that the finishing line is in sight for winter wheat.
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has published its spring cereal recommended lists for 2023.
Teagasc has provided an update on how growers can best maximise the potential of spring-sown winter wheat.
Septoria is very visible in most winter wheat crops at the present time. But disease levels remain relatively low.
According to Teagasc, the new tillage incentive scheme will lead to an increase in cereals planted after long-term permanent pasture.
Two new spring wheat varieties have been added to the recommended list - the only new varieties added to the spring cereal lists in 2020.
KWS Chilham is a new variety added to the provisionally recommended list of spring wheat varieties this season.
The spring cereal recommended lists have been published for the 2018 season. The lists are...
