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Speakers at the ITLUS conference last December include Patrick Forrestal, Teagasc, Duncan Rose, NRM Laboratories, UK, Brendan Cooney, Wexford County Council, Seamus Barron, Department of Agriculture, and Ivan Whitten, Teagasc, Naas.
Watch: setting up a clay and silt trap in the fields
As we enter the depths of winter and with rainfall amounts and frequency returning to normal levels, we set up a basic trap to measure soil runoff during the wet period.
Manures can be very useful additives to tillage soils, but recent problems with botulism and an inability to use the actual nutrient levels when tested could make their use less attractive in future.
Hugh McDonnell, ITLUS president, presents the ITLUS student award to Daniel Norse.. Daniel won the award for having achieved the highest marks in crop science in his final year degree course in UCD. He is now about to commence a PhD in crop research.
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