Agri-Business
ICSA: Food Vision Tillage Group will 'have its work cut out'
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has said that the Food Vision Tillage Group will have its work...
Straw
Tillage
Pink straw – could your eyes be deceiving you?
First noticed four years ago, pink straw at harvest has again been identified at a number of grain field sites...
Tillage
Implications of an early winter barley harvest - cover crops
A relatively early finish to the winter barley harvest will provide tillage farmers with an ideal opportunity to plant cover...
CAP / Schemes
DAFM issues notice of monitoring for protein and straw schemes
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has today (Thursday, July 21) advised that notifications for Checks by...
Beef
Floor type: 'Rubber mats seem to be a happy medium'
Rubber mats are a happy medium between concrete slatted floors and straw bedding, according to Teagasc researcher Cathy McGettigan. A...
Tillage News
Straw season: Which is financially better - chopping or baling?
The Irish Grain Growers’ Group (IGGG) is advising tillage farmers to really consider which option works out financially better of...
Tillage
Criteria for Straw Incorporation Measure
Courtesy of its July Newsletter, Teagasc has provided an update on the criteria that must be met to ensure compliance...
Tillage News
What constitutes the effective management of straw?
With harvest approaching, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) tillage specialists have highlighted the options available to cereal...
Tillage
Tillage: Straw Incorporation Measure
The latest edition of the Tillage Edge podcast profiles the value of straw with a clear focus on the 2022...
Tillage News
Over 2,500 applications to Straw Incorporation Measure
Just in excess of 2,500 herds applied for the Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM) in 2022, according to the Department of...
Machinery News
Case introduces new top end variable chamber balers
In May, Case brought to the world’s attention the various upgrades it had made to its basic variable chamber baler...
Sheep Technical
Ewes and mastitis - do plastic slats or straw matter?
“If I had all the money in the world I would put in plastic slats over the use of straw...
Rural Life
Major delays as truck carrying straw overturns on N4
Gardaí are at the scene of an incident on the N4/M4 westbound near Lucan, Co. Dublin, after a truck carrying...
Tillage
The new CAP will deliver for tillage farmers - McConalogue
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue is making it clear that the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)...
Tillage
Crops review: Spring of 2021 was a ‘tale of two seasons’
While winter sown crops may have come out of the winter in reasonable shape, the spring of 2021 gave growers...
Tillage
Minister rules out increasing ceiling in Straw Incorporation Measure
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has ruled out increasing the ceiling for eligible land under...
Beef
Beef Focus: Winter finishing on straw bedding in Laois
Raymond and Richard Carter are mixed tillage and beef farmers based just outside Stradbally in Co. Laois. The father-and-son duo...
Tillage Technical
Carbon neutrality should be feasible for many Irish tillage farmers
Teagasc is advising tillage farmers that achieving carbon neutrality within their businesses should be a feasible objective within a reasonable...
