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Tillage Podcast: glyphosate, shocking imports and all from Croptec Show

This week’s show features an interview with UK researcher John Cussans, who cannot believe that straw is being imported into Ireland from Lincolnshire.

NEWS 15 January 2026

Tillage Podcast: glyphosate, shocking imports and all from Croptec Show

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Editorial: no need for straw imports

Editorial: no need for straw imports

VIEWPOINTS 14 January 2026

Top 10 tips for positivity in tillage in 2026

Top 10 tips for positivity in tillage in 2026

NEWS 30 December 2025

Tillage Management: cover crop management from 1 January

Tillage Management: cover crop management from 1 January

Tillage Management: cover crop management from 1 January

HUSBANDRY 30 December 2025

2025 in tillage: blackgrass, seed, stubbles and prices

2025 in tillage: blackgrass, seed, stubbles and prices

2025 in tillage: blackgrass, seed, stubbles and prices

NEWS 24 December 2025

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Listen: Farm Tech Talk 2025 review of the year

Listen: Farm Tech Talk 2025 review of the year

Listen as the Irish Farmers Journal team recounts the highs and lows of the year gone by and predicts what might happen in 2026.

NEWS 19 November 2025

Weed risks should be added to plant health strategy

Weed risks should be added to plant health strategy

The draft plant health and biosecurity strategy consultation is now open and could look at biosecurity issues around weeds.

NEWS 19 November 2025

Tillage Podcast: tillage in 2025 - the good, the bad and everything in between

Tillage Podcast: tillage in 2025 - the good, the bad and everything in between

On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we look back on the year from the good weather to the poor incomes and everything in between.

NEWS 19 November 2025

Tillage Management: rainfall levels, payments and winter jobs

Tillage Management: rainfall levels, payments and winter jobs

Fields are very wet in most places at the minute so there won’t be too many out with a plough or a sprayer for another while.

HUSBANDRY 19 November 2025

Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

This week’s show features an interview with a young farmer from Wexford and covers blackgrass seed imports and possible changes to the two crop rule.

NEWS 19 November 2025

Imported straw could carry billions of blackgrass seeds

Imported straw could carry billions of blackgrass seeds

Billions of blackgrass seeds could be coming into the country in every load of straw imported from Britain, based on estimated infestation levels.

NEWS 19 November 2025

Exclusive tillage cover crop story

Exclusive tillage cover crop story

"I was horrified when I read your article on cover crops." - Harry Wallace, Raphoe, Co Donegal.

VIEWPOINTS 19 November 2025

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Consistency and calf health key to Offaly farmer’s success

For Offaly dairy and sheep farmers, husband-and-wife team Ann Maire Butterfield and Stephen McQuade, AAA Golden Maverick has always been part of the story.

Consistency and calf health key to Offaly farmer’s success

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