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Tillage
Examining nutrition and fungicides on beet crops
Siobhán Walsh
Nutrition needs to be watched in beet crops. Some crops were showing nitrogen and boron deficiency this year.
3 October 2024 News
Teagasc co-ordinating €5m integrated pest management project in crops
The four-year Horizon Europe project IPMorama was launched at a meeting at Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre in Dublin on Thursday 3 October.
21 August 2024 Farm machinery
Satellites and drones for targeted fertiliser and chemical use
Peter Thomas Keaveney attended a Farmhand and CultiWise working demonstration day in Laois last week where variable rate herbicide applications were derived from drone imagery.
Royal Irish Academy hosting public lecture on potato famine pathogen
The lecture will explore the migrations and spread of the pathogen Phytophthora infestans, which entered the shores of Ireland in 1845 and devastated the potato crop.
20 August 2024 News
Tillage Management: glyphosate rules, oilseed rape and harvest
Harvest is almost upon many tillage farmers. Weather into next week looks showery for cutting early ripening crops of winter barley.
3 July 2024 Husbandry
Accompany the Agronomist: disease levels moderate, gates beginning to close
Agronomists across the country took part in this survey. Siobhán Walsh reports.
19 June 2024 News
Weekend weather: changeable with heavy showers and some dry spells
Met Éireann has forecast mixed and changeable weather for the weekend, with longer spells of rain at times, some heavy. There will be dry spells too with sunshine, and it will become drier early next week.
14 June 2024 News
Bean crops due a fungicide in the coming days
Spring beans are generally treated with a fungicide at the start of flowering to prevent disease building up on the crop.
11 June 2024 News