Crops
Crops advice: Management tips for spring and winter barley and winter wheat
Crops advice: Management tips for spring and winter barley and winter wheat This week, Teagasc Tillage Specialist Ciaran Collins provides an update on spring barley, winter wheat and winter barley, including planting progress and fungicide treatments. Spring barley Plenty of spring barley remains to be sown in this stop-start spring. However, there […]
27 April 2023
Critical crop agronomy for late April and early May
Critical crop agronomy for late April and early May Planting of spring crops continues at pace, but there is still a substantial amount of planting to be completed. This is especially the case in the north east of the country. Ciaran Collins and Shay Phelan, both Tillage Specialists in Teagasc, join Michael […]
27 April 2023
Growing peas and beans in combination can reduce risk and increase yields
Growing peas and beans in combination can reduce risk and increase yields Teagasc researchers have found that growing peas and beans in combination can reduce risk and increase yields. Sheila Alves and Ewen Mullins tell us more. Faba beans and peas are re- nowned as excellent sources of in-demand plant protein. They […]
24 April 2023
Maize or beet an option for tillage farms?
Maize or beet an option for tillage farms? The establishment of many spring crops has been delayed by challenging weather conditions over recent weeks. And now that soil conditions have finally become workable, the spring planting options available to tillage farmers have become somewhat limited. Addressing last week’s meeting of the Fertiliser […]
23 April 2023
Shaped by snow and ice
Shaped by snow and ice As part of the GenESIS project, Teagasc is using genomic and phenotypic data to understand the nature of adaption and evolution in the North American Sitka spruce tree. This knowledge can then be implemented through the GenESIS research when breeding new and improved trees in Ireland. It’s […]
21 April 2023
Management of nitrogen in late-sown malting barley
Management of nitrogen in late-sown malting barley Crops planted in mid-February or very early March have pushed through the growth stages and should be well positioned for management actions, such as wild oat control and fungicide application, explains Rebecca Bayley, Teagasc/Boortmalt Joint Programme Advisor. However, the delayed planting of a lot of […]
20 April 2023
An update from Romania with Jim McCarthy
An update from Romania with Jim McCarthy On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Irishman Jim McCarthy, who manages a large tract of land in northern Romania, talks to Michael Hennessy about spring plantings, costs of inputs, machinery capacity and why many countries have banned imports of Ukrainian grain. Jim says that due […]
20 April 2023
Global coordination of crop research required
Global coordination of crop research required The G20 Meeting of the Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS-G20) takes place in Varanasi, India from 17 -19 April. As a G20 initiative, the Wheat Initiative (WI) was invited to participate and present. The Wheat Initiative representatives at the meeting are John Spink, Teagasc and Chair of […]
18 April 2023
Want to shave one-third off your nitrogen costs?
Want to shave one-third off your nitrogen costs? Urea will cost you 33% less than CAN with no reduction in grain yield. Ciaran Collins, Tillage specialist, Teagasc Crops Environment and Land Use Programme tells us more. CAN has always been somewhat more expensive than urea. The differential has grown over the last […]
16 April 2023
Weather halting spring crop work
Weather halting spring crop work Mark Plunkett, Teagasc Soil & Plant Nutrition Specialist, tells us that over the last number of weeks, field operations in tillage fields has been reduced due to poor weather and soil conditions. Many winter crops still await their main N application which should be a priority once […]
13 April 2023