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Tillage
Tillage Management: planting, rules and ploughing
Siobhán Walsh
Dry weather over the last while has been a help in the fields. There are a lot of dates and rules to remember at present.
Tillage Management: no update on three-crop rule
22 November 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: no update on three-crop rule
There has been no update on the three-crop rule in recent weeks, despite the fall in winter cereal area.
Tillage Management: planting continues, but plenty of fieldwork to be done
15 November 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: planting continues, but plenty of fieldwork to be done
Tillage farmers are making every effort to get potatoes out and crops planted in difficult conditions.
Tillage management: drier weather to come, some drills out
Wet weather continues to prevent progress in the tillage fields, although some have got out to plant crops.
8 November 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: saturated fields and slugs
Tillage farmers are looking out at saturated fields, some with slugs, which cannot be treated in some cases.
1 November 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: planting, rain, unharvested crops
Most tillage farmers had to stop planting due to wet weather and cannot carry out fieldwork at present.
25 October 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: rain stops winter cereal plantings
Tillage farmers are making the most of every planting window, as short as they are, to get winter cereal crops into the ground.
18 October 2023 Husbandry
Tillage management: Good weather in the forecast
Tillage farmers are trying to harvest, bale and plant crops in the drier spells of weather. It’s a case of taking every opportunity that comes.
11 October 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: drills moving in drier areas of the country
Weather continues to make things difficult on tillage farms as farmers still have crops to cut and want to start planting winter cereals.
4 October 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: wet weather continues to halt work
Tillage farmers have once again been stopped in the fields by wet weather as harvest continues and winter planting begins.
27 September 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: new rotation and diversification rules
There are a lot of new rules in the new CAP and they take a while to get used to, but crop rotation requirements need to be implemented now.
20 September 2023 Husbandry
Tillage Management: ordering seed and checking out recommended lists
There is plenty to do in preparation for sowing on tillage farms. Some farmers are of course still finishing off the harvest.
13 September 2023 Husbandry