Grain price hike provides forward selling opportunity
Weather concerns around the world are driving up grain prices to provide opportunities for forward selling.
Tillage farming
The latest tillage news and developments from the Irish Farmers Journal. Keep up to date with all crops and growing news developments in the tillage farming sector.
Watch: In the first of the From the Tramlines technical discussion of the year, Stephen Robb and Andy Doyle are joined by experts from Gouldings Fertiliser, Wolf Trax and the farming industry to discuss the role of micro-nutrients in crop productions
Watch: Denis Large from North Tipperary is the second farmer to feature in our Sustainable Farm Insight Programme supported by Glanbia Ireland. Denis talks to us about his beef and tillage enterprise and how he maximises efficiencies while being sustainable.
Watch: Agricultural science case study videos: This week, we hear from tillage farmer Kevin Nolan (video 3) about what has been happening on farm since his last video along with his upcoming plans. Topics discussed in this video include winter on a tillage farm, maintenance and repairs on machinery, plant counts and targets (seeds/ plants per square meter), crop maintenance and management, pest control and winter ploughing.
Watch: To help farmers understand the importance of soil to their businesses, the Sustainable Farm Insights programme supported by the Irish Farmers Journal and Glanbia Ireland, has produced a soil health video. The programme includes visits to a drystock, dairy and tillage farm to look at soil health in individual fields. All three farmers are working to preserve and improve their soils. In this video, Tillage farmer James Ashmore explains what he is doing to improve the health and productivity of worn tillage soils. The Sustainable Farm Insights programme is supported by the Irish Farmers Journal and Glanbia Ireland.
Watch: Mervyn McCann and Tim O’Donovan run through agenda for the 2020 ITLUS Winter Conference which will be held online this year.
Watch: Harkin Bros Potatoes rushing to get their potato crops harvested in An Grianán Estate, Co Donegal. The potato harvest in Donegal has been hampered due to wet weather. As much as 50% of the county’s crop remains to be dug. Nationally, the harvest is over 80% complete with average yields reported to be back by an estimated 15%.
Watch: Peter Thomas Keaveney visited Cork contractor Mark Troy as his team chopped the last of the maize for 2020 with his Claas Jaguar 990, the first and only 990 which is working in Ireland.
Watch: O'Shea farms harvest their crop of potatoes near Ardfinnan, Co Tipperary. Our photographer Donal O' Leary was there to capture all the action.
Watch: Yields in his spring barley crop are down but it looked a lot worse at the end of August
Tillage Management: current price levels make forward selling worth considering
With planting virtually complete, the focus moves to plant protection, but serious thought should also be given to forward selling with price levels where they are currently.
Tillage management: work load switches to plant protection once again
With planting now almost completed, the work emphasis shifts to growth regulation, nitrogen on spring crops and fungicide on winter cereals.
Potato prices hold as markets prepares for COVID easing
Prices hold as market segments get ready for change if COVID-19 restrictions ease.
Dry weather causing concern in key crop-growing regions
Concern around dry weather appears to be a common theme in most crop-growing regions this week.
New natural anti-freeze bio-stimulant launched for flowering fruit crops
Frost damage remains a major concern in fruit growers, writes Stephen Robb.
Vegetable processing making a comeback in east Cork
Every crop that has local food demand removes a commodity product and is good news for growers, processors and biodiversity.
Lime: a cheap and simple way to optimise fertiliser use
Correct soil pH is essential for a well functioning soil. On grassland lime can be applied at any time of the year.
Altering nitrogen rates after cover crops on malting barley ground
Protein specifications can be difficult to meet in malting barley. Catch crops have many benefits in tillage rotations but can make decisions on nitrogen rates more complicated.
Thrive: preparing calves for weaning
Should calves be weaned by age, weight or how much meal they are eating? Declan Marren looks at some of the key targets for calves in the weeks prior to weaning off milk.
Farm improvements at Drumforber
This week Robert Gilchrist speaks to with Andrew Gammie about the improvements he has implemented on his farm during the Farm Profit Programme.
From the Tramlines: dry in the south and east, wet in the north
Stephen Robb talks to growers from counties Tipperary, Donegal and Kildare where conditions couldn’t be any more different. Crops in the south and east need rain while crops in the need dry weather
Improving fertility and feed efficiency
James King runs a mainly autumn-calving herd in Ballymena, Co Antrim. Peter McCann reports.
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