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Value your rotations carefully
0 Value your rotations carefully Tillage rotations not only play an important role in maximising crop yields and margins, but they also bring sustainability benefits, Dermot Forristal, researcher in Teagasc Oak Park, told the recent National Tillage Conference. Although high levels of rainfall hampered the autumn establishment campaign for many, he urged farmers […]
7 February 2024
Organically farmed area triples since 2020
0 Organically farmed area triples since 2020 Following the announcement that 1,050 new applicants will participate in the Organic Farming Scheme this year, bringing the total to over 5,000, the area being farmed organically in Ireland is set to triple since 2020. As of the latest tranche of the Organic Farming Scheme, the […]
7 February 2024
Platform to share EU agriculture and forestry knowledge goes online
0 Platform to share EU agriculture and forestry knowledge goes online The EU-FarmBook is a Horizon Europe funded project that is working at regional, national, and European level to build an online platform to gather and share agriculture and forestry knowledge. Running from 2022 to 2029, 29 partners from 18 countries are contributing […]
7 February 2024
Dairy heifers behind target on a lot of farms
0 Dairy heifers behind target on a lot of farms John McCabe, Teagasc – Aurivo Farm Profitability Programme, has seen many bunches of heifers weighed in the past few weeks and their progress is worrying in many cases. 2023 was a hard year on replacement heifers. July was wet and so was the […]
6 February 2024
Sheep Improvement Scheme opens to new entrants
0 Sheep Improvement Scheme opens to new entrants New entrants to sheep farming are now invited to apply to Year two of the Sheep Improvement Scheme (SIS). Introduced to enhance animal welfare in the sheep sector, SIS provides financial support to farmers for taking extra steps to improve welfare in their flock. For […]
6 February 2024
Glyphosate: Avoid the resistance risk!
0 Glyphosate: Avoid the resistance risk! Glyphosate is an essential component of IWM and a resistance management tool. We must protect its efficacy to ensure we can continue to control critical grass weeds in the future, writes Vijaya Bhaskar of Teagasc Oak Park. Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide used to control annual and […]
6 February 2024
Part 1: Dublin city farming and the big flood in the 1950s
0 Part 1: Dublin city farming and the big flood in the 1950s A thriving agricultural industry was going on in Dublin city in the 1950s, from pigs and horses to cows. In the first of a two-part series, Mary Kennedy and Mick Denver chat to us about the rare auld times as […]
6 February 2024
The Native Tree Area Scheme
0 The Native Tree Area Scheme Padraic O’Leary, Teagasc Forestry Advisor, writes about The Native Tree Area Scheme (NTAS), designed to promote afforestation in Ireland by supporting the creation of native forests. What is the Native Tree Area Scheme? It offers incentives for establishing small native forests on farmed land. This scheme will […]
6 February 2024
The priority tasks for setting up the farm for the grazing season
0 The priority tasks for setting up the farm for the grazing season On this week’s episode of the Dairy Edge, dairy advisor Kay O’Connell joins Emma-Louise Coffey to address priority tasks from supporting cow and calf health to setting up the farm for the grazing season of 2024. Kay recommends that farmers […]
5 February 2024
Assess the quantities of grass on your farm now
0 Assess the quantities of grass on your farm now The average farm cover on your farm is a vital piece of information required to plan your spring feed budget, writes Teagasc Dairy Specialist, Mark Treacy. Farm covers entered on PastureBase Ireland show an average farm cover on dairy farms of 838kg DM/ha […]
5 February 2024