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Tillage
Tillage Podcast: payments, awards and contract cuts
Siobhán Walsh
On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we have the latest on payments and malting barley contracts and report from the Tirlán grain awards.
12 February 2025 News
Eighty seven per cent increase in cover crop area with funding in Wexford
Funding from the Farming for Water project has helped to increase the area of cover crops planted in the Castledockerell catchment.
5 February 2025 News
More carbon in tillage soils than expected
The attendees at the Teagasc National Tillage Conference heard that soil type and carbon inputs are the key to carbon sequestration. Conor Kehoe reports.
Top soil questions answered from Teagasc tillage conference
In this article, Conor Kehoe goes through some of your top questions on soil from the Teagasc National Tillage Conference.
4 February 2025 News
Editorial: cover crop benefits obvious
On the greater scale of things, surely we need a far larger proportion of the tillage area with cover crops.
29 January 2025 Viewpoints
Final 2024 crop area drops and pushes targets out
The drop in area is concerning for many reasons and makes it difficult for the Government to reach a number of the targets in its climate action plan.
26 January 2025 News
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
Tillage Management: snow, plans and events
Bad weather has put an end to fieldwork, but there is plenty of work to be done to plan for the year ahead.
8 January 2025 Husbandry
Watch: cover and companion crops in Co Louth
Gareth Culligan is a tillage farmer from Co Louth and is working on improving his soil and reducing chemical use on his farm.
7 January 2025 News
Sheep management: feeding early lambing ewes and sheep census
Where ewes are being retained indoors for any length of time, then concentrate supplementation needs to ensure that a nutritional deficit is minimised.
1 January 2025 Management
Sheep Management: grazing cover crops, rumen fluke and pregnancy scanning
New rules pertaining to the grazing of cover crops require at least a 30% lie back area to 70% grazing area
4 December 2024 Management
Survey: regulations pressuring tillage farmers
Regulations are putting pressure on farmers and causing issues for maximising the area of premium crops being grown.
1 December 2024 News