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Tillage
Know your limits on fertiliser
Siobhán Walsh
Farmers should look at the fertiliser recommendations and ensure they are applying the right amounts.
12 March 2025 Viewpoints
Home Farm: Lime levels being counted
We don’t use that much lime, but it’s noticeable that even on just one farm that pH levels vary from one field with a pH of over 7.5 while a small grass paddock was analysed at 5.5.
12 March 2025 Husbandry
Tillage Management: sowing, spreading and spraying
It’s all go in the tillage fields this week as fine weather has taken over the weather charts to give farmers a great chance this spring.
Weekend weather: cool and mild with patches of rain
Met Éireann has announced that the weekend will be pleasantly mild in sunshine, with only patches of showery rain in the southwest and top temperatures of 16°C.
7 March 2025 News
Large reductions in fertiliser and electricity costs
The data comes from the CSO’s Agricultural Price Indices for 2024, which show that the annual input prices for agriculture dropped by 10% compared to 2023, excluding VAT.
23 February 2025 News
Inheritance tax changes to impact over 42,200 English and Scottish farms
AHDB analyst Tom Spencer said that tillage farms are the most likely to be affected due to their scale and asset size.
23 February 2025 Northern Ireland
Tillage farmers hit out at grain import volume
Farmers had the chance to speak to Minister of Agriculture Martin Heydon at the Irish Grain Growers Group AGM on Friday.
19 February 2025 News
Tillage Management: seed, storm damage and jobs in tillage
From filling out college application forms to checking insurance after the storm there is plenty to think about in this week’s management notes.
29 January 2025 Husbandry
Clarkson back
Organisers of Cereals 2026 are expecting upwards of 25,000 visitors call to Diddly Squat farm for the event.
22 January 2025 Dealer
Fertiliser hit with January price hike
Fertiliser manufacturers have increase price quotes on nitrogen fertiliser as sales start to build ahead of the upcoming spring
15 January 2025 Northern Ireland
Tillage Management: varieties and moving slurry
The slurry-spreading season has started again, but you should only take slurry in where conditions are suitable to do so.
15 January 2025 Husbandry
Mixed story for Irish agrifood exports
Irish agrifood exports to September 2024 reveal several changes compared with same period last year.
23 December 2024 News