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Weekend weather: showers with occasional bright spells

Met Éireann has forecast more unsettled weather for the weekend with rain and showers on the way. There will be a brief dip in temperatures on Friday night, returning to normal on Sunday.

NEWS 27 February 2026

Weekend weather: showers with occasional bright spells

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Avail of free P and K by applying lime

Avail of free P and K by applying lime

FERTILIZERS 11 February 2026

Big boots help spread the load

Big boots help spread the load

FARM MACHINERY 28 January 2026

What to do with cover crops this January

What to do with cover crops this January

What to do with cover crops this January

NEWS 30 December 2025

Tillage Management: ploughing, wet weather and cover crops

Tillage Management: ploughing, wet weather and cover crops

Tillage Management: ploughing, wet weather and cover crops

NEWS 26 November 2025

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Watch out for mycotoxin issues this winter

Watch out for mycotoxin issues this winter

The main source of mycotoxins in NI agriculture is grass silage. David Wright reports

NORTHERN IRELAND 6 November 2025

Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

Tillage Podcast: chatting to a positive Wexford tillage farmer

This week’s show features an interview with a young farmer from Wexford and covers blackgrass seed imports and possible changes to the two crop rule.

NEWS 6 November 2025

Agritechnica: Lemken introduces no-till disc drill

Agritechnica: Lemken introduces no-till disc drill

Among its suite of 2026 product updates launched at Agritechnica, Lemken introduced its first no-till disc drill, the Solitair NT to its range.

NEWS 6 November 2025

New €12.7m Teagasc research hub opens

New €12.7m Teagasc research hub opens

NASRIC will have 140 researchers and students operating across forty-four separate lab spaces with state-of the-art equipment.

NEWS 6 November 2025

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

Home Farm: saturated soil makes grazing difficult

If the rain continues we will have to consider housing everything, though that would eat into our silage supplies and affect our store buying programme in the spring

VIEWPOINTS 6 November 2025

Bednar launches Soniq one-pass drill combination

Bednar launches Soniq one-pass drill combination

At Agritechnica, Bednar presented its new Soniq On 3000, one pass power harrow seed drill.

FARM MACHINERY 6 November 2025

Amazone wins DLG Agrifuture Concept award with SoilDetect system

Amazone wins DLG Agrifuture Concept award with SoilDetect system

Amazone is one of the winners of the DLG Agrifuture Concept 2025 with SoilDetect. The system measures soil conductivity along with other data in order to create soil maps.

NEWS 6 November 2025

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Select milk replacers carefully to ensure top calf development and growth

Maximising the potential of every animal starts with selecting a quality calf milk replacer (CMR) that includes a bespoke health package to suit the calves being fed.

Select milk replacers carefully to ensure top calf development and growth

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