Tillage focus: From field to feed mill – John Cullen Grain is an impressive sight December 16, 2018 Tillage ‘From little acorns mighty oak trees grow.’ That well known phrase isn’t a bad description of what happened to John Cullen’s business. John…
Tillage focus: Potato business gets ‘sweet’ in order to meet demand December 1, 2018 Tillage The potato industry in Ireland is a volatile sector, with small increases in potato consumption. O’Shea Farms is one of Ireland’s largest suppliers…
Tillage focus: Pulling beet with a self-propelled harvester in Co. Laois November 10, 2018 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage 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 Tillage Kevin McCann was finally getting into spring sowing when AgriLand visited his farm just outside Camolin in Co. Wexford this week. Maize was…
