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Farmer Actions to Improve Water Quality
Farmer Actions to Improve Water Quality Select the right measure in the right place to mitigate phosphorus, sediment and nitrogen losses to waters. Find out what the water quality status is for your local river. Use Pollution Impact Potential (PIP) maps to identify the critical source areas (CSAs) for phosphorus, sediment and […]
27 June 2023
Laurence Shalloo on the challenges & opportunities facing the dairy industry
Laurence Shalloo on the challenges & opportunities facing the dairy industry Laurence Shalloo, Head of the Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Programme at Teagasc Moorepark, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge podcast to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the dairy industry in the forthcoming years. Laurence looks back […]
26 June 2023
Your ACRES Plan
Your ACRES Plan Many of the 46,000 farmers who applied for ACRES last November had their applications approved in late March. Once you were approved you were effectively a scheme participant since the 1st of January and the contracted period will run for 5 years until the 31st of December 2027. Austin […]
26 June 2023
Be vigilant of lungworm
Be vigilant of lungworm After a sustained dry period, recent rainfall may have created the perfect conditions for lungworm to develop. One of the most important respiratory diseases of cattle in Ireland and caused by Dictyocaulus viviparous, humid conditions following rainfall create the perfect conditions for lungworm to multiply. With most of […]
26 June 2023
John Pringle Farm Update – Grassland, Clover, Breeding & Performance
John Pringle Farm Update – Grassland, Clover, Breeding & Performance John farms with his wife Linda, daughter Lucy and sons William and Scott. He works full-time on the farm in Kilacloran, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. Here he gives us his farm update for May and June. Grassland management 35 acres of silage has […]
26 June 2023
Back to the future – developing new avenues for oats
Back to the future – developing new avenues for oats An overview of the Healthy Oats project, a collaboration between Teagasc, UCD and Aberystwyth University, was provided at the Crops and Cover Crop Cultivations Open Day on Wednesday, June 21st. Cathal McCabe, Lecturer in the UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, […]
26 June 2023
Optimum grazing stocking rate in mid-season
Optimum grazing stocking rate in mid-season Best practice grazing management over the summer months is to maintain pre-grazing herbage mass between 1,300 and 1,500kg dry matter (DM)/ha (8 and 10cm), and target a post-grazing sward height of 4-4.5cm. Grazing conditions have been difficult this spring; therefore, grass quality on a lot of […]
25 June 2023
Growing Organics: Combining a sheep and tillage enterprise in Co. Laois
Growing Organics: Combining a sheep and tillage enterprise in Co. Laois Operating a mixed sheep and tillage farm in Errill, Co. Laois, the Stanley family have just marked their first decade of being fully certified organic farmers. A host of a recent Growing Organics demonstration farm walk, the farm is now in […]
25 June 2023
Beautiful plants which thrive in acid soils
Beautiful plants which thrive in acid soils One of the great beauties of the late-spring garden is the abundance of acid soil loving plants doing their thing. Chris Heavey, Lecturer at the Teagasc College in the National Botanic Gardens, has many favourites and first among them is Magnolia, which comes in evergreen […]
25 June 2023
Beyond Peat, potential peat alternatives for Irish horticulture
Beyond Peat, potential peat alternatives for Irish horticulture To highlight the work being done to meet that challenge, we spoke to the core Beyond Peat Mushroom team: Senior Research Officer Helen Grogan, Technologist Brian McGuinness, Specialist Advisor Donal Gernon, and Research Officer Eoghan Corbett. Peatlands are natural reservoirs of carbon and biodiversity, […]
25 June 2023