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Farmers struggling with new fertiliser rules
Declan O’Brien
Just one-third of respondents to the INHFA survey said they knew the soil index levels on all of their lands.
29 May 2024 Northern Ireland
Scientists searching for wool shedding genes
Young rams from local Easycare and Wiltshire Horn flocks have been DNA sampled to help identify the genes that lead to wool shedding.
8 May 2024 Northern Ireland
One in five badgers test positive for TB
Despite the high positive rates, there are concerns that the survey could be under-estimating the extent of bovine TB infections in local wildlife.
Over 2,000 miss out on soil sampling scheme
Cork was the county with the highest number of farmers approved to the Soil Sampling and Analysis Programme.
21 February 2024 News
Variable rate fertiliser application, is it viable?
Dermot Forristal from Teagasc Oak Park explains what variable rate application is and examines are Irish farmers losing out without adopting it.
7 February 2024 Farm machinery