Tillage
Tillage: Crop management advisory update
Teagasc has just issued a comprehensive crop management advisory update. In many cases farmers have not been able to get...
Tillage
Teagasc has just issued a comprehensive crop management advisory update. In many cases farmers have not been able to get...
Tillage Technical
The old Sustainable Use Directive for the safe use of pesticides is due to be superseded by a new Sustainable...
Tillage
Securing effective weed control in crops – including winter barley, wheat and oilseed rape – is now important according to...
Tillage
According to Teagasc, the area of cereals sown-out over the past three weeks that has received a pre-emergent herbicide is...
Tillage
According to Teagasc, pre-emergence herbicides have been shown to be more effective in controlling problem grass weeds such as Bromes,...
Tillage
Good farm hygiene is crucial to tackling the weed threat posed by Italian ryegrass, the Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board...
Tillage
Teagasc has confirmed a significant increase in the area of oilseed rape planted this year – a 20% increase in...
Tillage
Teagasc is advising farmers growing oilseed rape this year to count plant numbers before applying a post-emergent herbicide. This, tillage...
Machinery News
Growers of field-scale vegetables are increasingly facing the problem of keeping ridge crops weed-free while using less chemicals. Lemken has...
Tillage Technical
Teagasc has hosted a number of farm walks over recent weeks, at which establishment rates of over 85% have been...
Dairy Technical
After a wet spring, the recent good weather has given many farmers the opportunity to reseed some of their poor...
Tillage Technical
Farmers in the UK are being asked to assist in a new study looking at the spread of rat’s-tail fescue,...
Dairy Technical
It is around this time in the season, when weeds are young and actively growing, that they are at the...
Tillage
There is a significant amount of winter oilseed rape being planted at the moment, despite heavy rain hampering ground conditions....
Grass
Docks are known to be one of the most troublesome grassland weeds, but did you know that leaving them in...
Grass
In recent weeks, slurry and fertiliser spreaders have been a common site in the fields, and on the roads in...
Tillage
Black-grass is present in many fields across the country and it is a grass weed that cannot be ignored. When...
Dairy
Now is the ideal time for farmers to be taking out the sprayer. It is around this time in the season...