Environment
Is nitrogen distributed evenly across your farm?
Chemical and organic fertiliser may be applied evenly across a farm throughout the year, but it may not get taken up evenly.
24 August 2026
Celebrate National Hedgerow Week 2026
National Hedgerow Week returns from 28 August to 6 September 2026, celebrating one of Ireland's most valuable natural assets.
24 August 2026
Preparing for a Local Authority Farm Inspection
Local authorities across the country carry out farm inspections under the National Agricultural Inspection Programme (NAIP) and is a core part of Ireland’s approach to protecting water quality from agricultural pressures by inspecting farms for compliance with the Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) regulations.
20 August 2026
Farming with Nature: Practical Ways to Enhance Farmland Biodiversity
Declan Byrne and Ruth Dunne of Teagasc Tinahely recently hosted a farm walk on Paul and Kathleen Carberry’s farm in County Wicklow, offering attendees the opportunity to see first-hand how farming and nature can work together.
17 August 2026
FarmBioNet becomes a partner in the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan 2026-2030
Meritxell Grau Butinyac, FarmBioNet Project Manager, and Claudia Barry, Biodiversity Research Technician, explain how FarmBioNet, working with the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan, will help people understand what biodiversity needs while also giving them practical ways to provide it.
14 August 2026
The underpants test
As unusual as it might sound, the Underpants Degradation Test offers a surprisingly powerful indicator of soil biological activity and a useful tool for farmers to get an insight into what's happening under the ground in their soils.
13 August 2026
Aligning Policy and Practice: Improving Uptake of Ammonia Reducing Measures
A new Teagasc–UCD study published in the journal Agricultural and Food Economics has examined why some cost effective ammonia reducing practices aren’t being taken up on Irish farms.
12 August 2026
Tracking changes in Good Agricultural Practice Regulations since 2018
Signalling considerable changes to requirements for farming practice, Eddie Burgess, Agricultural Catchments Programme, provides an overview of the more significant changes since the introduction of the fourth Nitrates Action Programme in 2018.
12 August 2026
What five years organic has taught us
Brian Meredith and his father Keith quickly learnt that the sky was not going to fall in when they went organic, although the first couple of years did bring a certain amount of worry and anxiety for them both. Siobhan Kavanagh, Marianne Mulhall and Bernadette Bennett write on some of the changes they’ve witnessed.
10 August 2026
Farmers more worried about climate change than people think
Both farmers and non-farmers worry about climate change and say they are willing to take action. But they underestimate each other's worry and willingness, according to new research by the ESRI's Behavioural Research Unit.
7 August 2026