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Tillage management: Herbicide options for winter crops

March 23, 2018

Poor ground conditions over the winter left many crops without a herbicide. Although farmers are eager to get out with sprayers, ground conditions…

Tillage focus: Fertiliser out and ploughing well underway in Tipperary

March 19, 2018

Tillage

Thomas Lonergan is in a minority group; he’s a young tillage farmer. Having studied at Kildalton College, he came home to farm just…

Winter planting: Acreage down but by how much?

November 8, 2017

Tillage

Winter crop acreage looks to be down, despite a burst of planting equipment to the tillage fields in the past two weeks. Following…

Tillage focus: Sowing winter wheat beside the M50

November 2, 2017

Tillage

“The hardest machine to move in the city traffic is the combine. The balers are big enough as well. They can be tricky.”…

Tillage management: How can you control BYDV and aphids?

October 29, 2017

Tillage

Barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) has become a major talking point in Irish cereal production in the past number of years. The severity…

Tillage focus: Balancing winter sowing with an on-farm enterprise

October 14, 2017

Tillage

Francis, Gavin and Diarmuid Owens are tillage farmers in Ballycullane, just outside Athy, Co. Kildare. The brothers sow mostly winter wheat along with…

‘Spray herbicide early to control grass weeds’

September 30, 2017

Tillage

Winter cereals are currently being planted where weather allows. Once sowing is completed, farmers should start looking at their autumn herbicide options. As…

High levels of mildew reported in some winter cereals

February 27, 2017

Tillage

Teagasc is reporting quite high levels of mildew infestations in a number of winter cereal crops. “Generally speaking, both wheat and barley crops…

Winter cereal crops starting to yellow

February 6, 2017

Tillage

Some winter cereal crops have started to yellow slightly over recent days, according to Teagasc tillage advisor Marianne Mulhall. But this should not…

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