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Tillage focus: Pulling beet with a self-propelled harvester in Co. Laois

November 10, 2018

John Mulhare pulled his beet crop at the end of October and, having watched the crop from cultivation, AgriLand checked in to see how…

Tillage focus: Potato harvest in full swing

November 3, 2018

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The main potato harvest started on Keogh’s Farm in north Co. Dublin approximately two weeks ago. Most will know the Keoghs for their…

Tillage focus: What do we really know about cover crops?

September 30, 2018

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In the space of 20 years, the number of farmers growing cover crops in this country has increased almost 20 fold. Cover crops…

Tillage focus: Organic oat’s demand sees livestock decline

September 1, 2018

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Donald and Aideen Treacy converted to organic farming eight years ago. Based outside Crookstown in Co. Kildare, the Treacys moved from a conventional…

Tillage focus: Effect of drought to hit the veg shelves in the coming weeks

August 21, 2018

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Paul Brophy is one of a small number of large-scale broccoli growers in the country. His vegetable business is solely broccoli and for…

Tillage focus: Harvesting wheat, sowing forage crops and selling grain

August 12, 2018

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Kevin Nolan is no stranger to AgriLand. He appeared in our CROPS WATCH series this summer. At that time, he was managing different…

Tillage focus: Coeliacs celebrate as combines roll

July 28, 2018

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Glanbia’s gluten-free oats business has grown over the past five years. AgriLand visited a field of the niche crop being harvested last week…

Tillage focus: Trial leaves no room for error

July 22, 2018

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Drummonds first set up its agricultural division here in Ireland in 1972. In one way it’s like any other agri-merchant; the company sells…

Tillage focus: Precision the name of the game in north Dublin

July 8, 2018

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A lot of people think of technology when they hear the word precision, but GPS and N-sensors aren’t the only methods of precision…

Tillage focus: Harvest kicks off in Co. Kilkenny

July 5, 2018

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Combines began to roll all over the country this week, as the harvest gets into full swing approximately two weeks earlier than usual.…

Tillage focus: 28,000t of potatoes from a family farm in Co. Kilkenny

June 25, 2018

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Over the past 45 years, O’Shea Farms (known especially for potatoes) has progressed from a family partnership of four brothers – Dick, John,…

Tillage focus: Straw yield could drop to 4 bales/ac in the ‘dry’ south-east

June 14, 2018

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2018 has been a very unusual year for Irish farming. The extremely wet spring led to difficult sowing conditions and the recent prolonged…

Tillage focus: This Irish man is planting vegetables in the North Carolina hills

June 4, 2018

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Bottomleys Evergeens & Farm is a family run company, based at Glade Valley, North Carolina – beside the Blueridge Mountains – and sells…

Tillage focus: Whiskey and beef from spring barley in Co. Kilkenny

May 28, 2018

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Ballykeefe Distillery is set to be the next big thing in the Irish agri-food industry. It is the only farm in Ireland producing…

Tillage focus: Still sowing spring crops in south Wexford

May 13, 2018

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It’s almost the middle of May and, in a normal year, spring barley crops would have received a herbicide spray and many would…

Tillage focus: Growing maize on contract is working in Co. Wexford

May 4, 2018

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Kevin McCann was finally getting into spring sowing when AgriLand visited his farm just outside Camolin in Co. Wexford this week. Maize was…

Tillage focus: How a monthly ‘oil’ cheque has changed this tillage farm

April 15, 2018

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Patrick and Carol Rooney have transformed their tillage farm. Patrick no longer describes himself as a tillage farmer; he’s a food producer. Tired…

Tillage focus: Growing seed and selling feed on a Co. Tipperary farm

March 31, 2018

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This young Tipperary man is broadening his rotation. This season he has added seed oilseed rape to the fold. Gavin Delany farms in…

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