National Tillage Conference Proceedings 2019

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The 2019 National Tillage Conference covered the following topics:

Session 1: Challenges ahead and opportunities/response 

• Playing fields: Level or otherwise 
• Economics of the tillage sector in Ireland: Possible Brexit implications 
• Loss of some, gain of others – current perspectives on crop protection chemistries
• A farmer/merchant view of the tillage industry

Session 2: Research snapshots 

• Breeding for ‘resilience’   
• The impact of field headlands on crop performance in Irish tillage fields 
• Machine turning on headlands: Impact on traffic paths and soil stress
• Break crop research: An update
• Tools to assess soil structural quality in tillage soils 
• Grass weed control: Utilising all the tools 
• Herbicide resistance in wild oats: What have we learned? 
• Oats research – Update 
• IPM assessment in temperate arable farming (Ireland and the U.K.)