Slurry
Kieran Mailey on 16 Jan 2021
Beef management: five tips for spreading slurry in early spring
With the slurry season opening in parts of the country, Kieran Mailey outlines some tips for making best use of the slurry applications in early spring.
Bill O'Keeffe on 13 Jan 2021
Farmer Writes: calm before the calving storm
Bill O’Keeffe is getting set up for calving 2021 on his farm this week, with calving set to begin soon.
Aidan Brennan on 13 Jan 2021
Dairy management: nitrogen, slurry and debt
Aidan Brennan looks at the best time to start spreading nitrogen, where to go with slurry and looks at dairy debt.
Peter Thomas Keaveney on 13 Jan 2021
FCI urge safety at slurry and to order parts in advance
FCI is urging contractors to ensure that safety remains a top priority as the slurry spreading season kicks off in some areas of the country.
Stephen Robb on 13 Jan 2021
Flagship biomethane central injection facility gets green light
The facility will facilitate the injection of biomethane produced from anaerobic digesters into the national gas grid.
Amy Forde on 08 Jan 2021
Slurry spreading period begins next week
Farmers are also reminded that they cannot spread organic fertilisers or soiled water from a road or passageway.
Siobhán Walsh on 08 Jan 2021
Fertiliser on dairy farms: ‘If you do nothing, costs will increase’
Deirdre Hennessy was speaking at the Irish Grassland Association's dairy conference, in relation to the requirement to cut fertiliser use under the Farm to Fork Strategy.
Adam Woods on 06 Jan 2021
Slurry season opening, managing in cold weather and having a COVID-19 plan
In this week's beef management notes, Adam Woods take a look at slurry spreading, managing in cold weather and having a plan in place for COVID-19
Kieran Mailey on 06 Jan 2021
BETTER Farm NI: five management jobs for January
Kieran Mailey outlines five management tasks to complete on suckler farms during January.
Peter McCann on 06 Jan 2021
Four farm deaths in NI during 2020
There were 23 fatal accidents on farms across the island of Ireland during 2020
Barry Cassidy on 01 Jan 2021
Tougher nitrates rules come into force
Farmers who were stocked above 170kg N/ha this year should be aware that there a number of new rules that will apply to them in 2021.
Peter Thomas Keaveney on 30 Dec 2020
Tramspread release new slurry hose pinchers
Tramspread has released two new slurry hose pinchers to help reduce the risk of slurry spillages on umbilical systems.
Contributor on 30 Dec 2020
Nutrient sensing and slurry spreading
Developments in slurry spreading to date have been driven by LESS technique. Now the focus is on quantifying the level of nutrients being applied, writes Dermot Forristal of Teagasc.
Gary Abbott on 30 Dec 2020
Made in Ireland: spreading success in Clare
Gary Abbott travelled to meet Barry O’Connor of Conor engineering to speak about the company’s success and how it has adapted to changes in the market over its 51 years in business.
Peter Thomas Keaveney on 30 Dec 2020
Steps involved in retro-fitting a dribble bar
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled west to Major in Co Mayo to follow a 15-year-old 2,400-gallon tanker through a retro-fit process where it was married up to a new 7.5m dribble bar.
Gary Abbott on 30 Dec 2020
€21.6m of LESS equipment paid out so far through TAMS II
Up until December 2020, a total of 2,020 LESS equipment applications had been paid out for the year under the TAMS II grant scheme, we look at the breakdown of these payments.
Peter Thomas Keaveney on 30 Dec 2020
Giving your old slurry tanker a new lease of life
Peter Thomas Keaveney took a trip to Tipperary to catch up with the Coonan family who run S&M Trailers, one of Ireland’s only slurry tanker refurbishment companies.
Gary Abbott on 30 Dec 2020
Macerator servicing - what’s involved?
Gary Abbott caught up with Paul Feeney of Vogelsang Ireland to run through a standard Vogelsang ECL macerator service procedure.
Niall Hurson on 23 Dec 2020
Looking back: The farming A to Z of 2020
We take a look back at the talking points of the past year.
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan on 22 Dec 2020
COVID-19 cuts farm inspections in half
Inspectors were not able to visit farms because of the pandemic.