Crops
Tillage Update – Time spent walking your fields is well worth the effort
Tillage Update – Time spent walking your fields is well worth the effort Almost all the major agronomic actions are now completed for the season. Michael Hennessy, Head of Teagasc Crops, sees this an an opportune time for farmers to learn most about the management of crops and how the agronomic practices […]
16 June 2022
Tillage Newsletter – June 2022
Tillage Newsletter – June 2022 In the June Tillage newsletter get the latest advice on: Spring barley – Disease control; Winter wheat – Disease control; Spring oats; Beans; Spring wheat – PGR and disease control; New nitrates rules for harvest 2022 and Health & Safety – Keeping children safe on the farm […]
16 June 2022
Weed watch
Weed watch Teagasc researchers have brought easy-to-use technology into the field, by developing a successful data collection mobile app. This app is supporting a long-running project promoting the wider adoption of sustainable conservation tillage systems on Irish farms. Conservation tillage (CT) is a non-plough-based crop establishment technique that, combined with other measures, […]
12 June 2022
Tillage Update – 9th June 2022
0 Tillage Update – 9th June 2022 Mark Plunkett, Soil & Plant Nutrition Specialist reports on tillage crops and how they are developing in the southeast. Rain fall in the first week of June was welcome as soil moisture deficits were at 50mm here in the south east. Further rainfall forecast will help […]
9 June 2022
Spring Barley, Spring Beans and Farm Safety
0 Spring Barley, Spring Beans and Farm Safety Michael McCarthy, Teagasc Tillage Advisor, Clonakilty West Cork has timely advice on fungicide application on spring barley and spring beans and cautions about being farm safety aware at all times during the busy summer season. Photo above shows chocolate spot on spring beans Spring Barley Disease […]
7 June 2022
John Burke receives World Potato Congress Industry Award
0 John Burke receives World Potato Congress Industry Award John Burke has been announced as one of the winners of the World Potato Congress Industry Awards. John Burke is one of Ireland’s foremost experts in the area of potato agronomy. Photo above: Dr. John J Burke accepts his World Potato Congress Industry Award from Romain […]
2 June 2022
Reducing risk on tillage farms
0 Reducing risk on tillage farms Tillage specialist Shay Phelan spoke to many tillage farmers during the recent Teagasc spring crops walks. Here he discusses the many options that these farmers are considering to lower costs and reduce the risks associated with current cost of inputs, grain prices, energy costs etc Farmers are […]
2 June 2022
Teagasc papers at the 11th World Potato Congress
0 Teagasc papers at the 11th World Potato Congress The 11th World Potato Congress is taking place at the RDS Dublin over 4 days this week. The theme of the Congress is “The Changing World of the Potato”. Among the speakers today, Wednesday, 1 June, are Dan Milbourne and Ewen Mullins from the […]
1 June 2022
Enable Conservation Tillage Project Crop Walks
Enable Conservation Tillage Project Crop Walks Enable Conservation Tillage (ECT) Project Crop Walks will take place over the next couple of weeks on various farms across the country. The first of these is on Wednesday 1st June at 9.30 am on the farm of Gareth Culligan, Stabannon, Co. Louth. Find out more […]
31 May 2022
Spring Beans
Spring Beans Tillage Specialist Ciaran Collins gives an update on the various stages that spring beans are at present. Disease concerns are chocolate spot and downy mildew Growth Stages There is a large range in growth stages of beans this season due to the prolonged sowing period. Sowing of beans started in […]
26 May 2022