Pesticides

Tillage Podcast: preparing for fieldwork and talking generics

On this week’s show, we speak to Life Scientific about producing generic chemicals and look ahead to fieldwork.

NEWS 19 March 2026

Tillage Podcast: preparing for fieldwork and talking generics

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Tillage management: wet fields, soil-sampling and planning

Tillage management: wet fields, soil-sampling and planning

Tillage management: wet fields, soil-sampling and planning

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55 calls to national poisons centre from agricultural workplaces

55 calls to national poisons centre from agricultural workplaces

55 calls to national poisons centre from agricultural workplaces

NEWS 14 December 2025

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Tillage Management: safety, seed and winter jobs

Tillage Management: safety, seed and winter jobs

There are loads of winter jobs to be done, from walking the fields to putting antifreeze in the sprayer.

HUSBANDRY 18 June 2025

Watch: 'my head was dizzy and the headaches were cruel'

Watch: 'my head was dizzy and the headaches were cruel'

Mobile plunge sheep dipping operator Kevin Sheridan from Co Meath recalls the after effects of dipping sheep without any protective face mask, Darren Carty reports.

FARM SAFETY 18 June 2025

Watch: are you protecting yourself while spraying?

Watch: are you protecting yourself while spraying?

Farmers across the country generally need to spray at some stage or another, and should be trained and dressed appropriately.

NEWS 18 June 2025

Caution urged with pesticide use to protect water quality progress

Caution urged with pesticide use to protect water quality progress

Farmers have been reminded of best practice when using pesticides to safeguard the progress achieved in recent years.

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT 18 June 2025

Sheep Management: managing spent sheep dip and wormer efficacy

Sheep Management: managing spent sheep dip and wormer efficacy

With such a close spotlight on the disposal of spent sheep dip farmers need to take care to ensure it is disposed of correctly.

MANAGEMENT 18 June 2025

Healy-Rae urges farmers to wear PPE when spraying pesticides

Healy-Rae urges farmers to wear PPE when spraying pesticides

Minister Healy-Rae was speaking directly to professional pesticide users at Crops and Technology, held by Teagasc at its Crops Research and Innovation Centre at Oak Park.

NEWS 18 June 2025

Weed wiping rushes helps improve water quality

Weed wiping rushes helps improve water quality

A catchment in Cavan has seen its MCPA load reduce between 2022 and 2024, after a voluntary water protection project was rolled out for farmers.

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT 18 June 2025

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Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

Conal Moore an agri contractor and tillage framer from Ballygar Co Galway. “We do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.

Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

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