Crops
Tillage Update 10th March 2022
Tillage Update 10th March 2022 Shay Phelan, Teagasc Crops and Potato Specialist, reports that spring sowing of some crops has commenced in recent days. Shay reminds that soil conditions are more important than the date. He discusses the importance of thousand grain weights on seed rates and advises on winter crop management […]
10 March 2022
Tillage Update 3rd March 2022
0 Tillage Update 3rd March 2022 Winter crops are showing signs of spring growth in the last week where soil temperatures are on average 7 – 8° C in most of the tillage areas. Ciaran Collins Teagasc Crops Specialist has the update on how winter crops of barley, oats, wheat and oilseed rape […]
3 March 2022
Tillage update February 24th
Tillage update February 24th The Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased all commodities prices. There is a huge jump in grain prices and it wont be long before fertiliser prices follow suit as energy prices are predicted to increase significantly. Tillage specialist Michael Hennessy gives some advice Where does the increase in grain […]
24 February 2022
Teagasc Regional Winter Crop Walks – February 2022
Teagasc Regional Winter Crop Walks – February 2022 Teagasc will hold Regional Crop Walks (in person!!) from February 15 -18 starting in Oak Park, Carlow at 2pm. The Crop walks will cover the agronomy of all the major winter crops – with a special focus on nutrient advice. To find a walk […]
10 February 2022
Tillage Update – 10th February 2022
Tillage Update – 10th February 2022 In this week’s Tillage Update Shay Phelan, Teagasc Crops Specialist has fertiliser advice for 2022 plus the latest on winter oilseed rape, Green Area Index (GAI) and using the GAI app, winter crop walks information and details of the recent Malting Barley webinar, all here on […]
10 February 2022
Teagasc Virtual Tillage Conference 2022
0 Teagasc Virtual Tillage Conference 2022 The 2022 National Tillage Conference took place virtually, split over two days. The first session took place on Thursday, 13 January and the second took place on Thursday, 27 January. Catch up with both days here in this double webinar on Teagasc Daily Session One – Thursday, […]
3 February 2022
Plan spring fertiliser applications for tillage crops
Plan spring fertiliser applications for tillage crops Considering the cost of nitrogen in 2022, it’s a good year for farmers to look at ways to reduce nitrogen use on farm. There are a number of ways to reduce nitrogen use including; growing your own nitrogen (using legume crops), reduce nitrogen inputs and […]
21 January 2022
Signpost Tillage farmer: Tom Tierney
Signpost Tillage farmer: Tom Tierney Tom Tierney is a tillage farmer in Prosperous in County Kildare. Tom uses a no-till establishment system in conjunction with cover crops to improve soil health. He is a participant in GLAS and in the Kildare Pollinator project to try to reduce his impact on the environment […]
16 January 2022
Tillage Farms are low GHG emitters but targeting nitrogen can reduce emissions further
Tillage Farms are low GHG emitters but targeting nitrogen can reduce emissions further The biggest contributor to Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions on tillage farms is nitrogen use. Michael Hennessy, Head of Crop Knowledge Transfer Department, Teagasc looks at some of the figures involved in reducing nitrogen rates on farms. Based on the […]
30 December 2021
Tillage update – Chopped straw reducing crop establishment in min-tilled winter crops
Tillage update – Chopped straw reducing crop establishment in min-tilled winter crops Mark Plunkett, Soil & Plant Nutrition Specialist reports on winter crops and how they are developing in the southeast. On the shortest day of the year, he visited a number of crops in east Wicklow with Local Tillage advisor Martin […]
23 December 2021