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Weekend weather: long awaited mostly dry weekend

Met Éireann has forecast a mainly dry and mild weekend, with some patches of fog and drizzle in places.

NEWS 20 March 2026

Weekend weather: long awaited mostly dry weekend

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Tillage farmers playing catch-up

Tillage farmers playing catch-up

NEWS 18 March 2026

Weekend weather: mostly dry, with rain on way for Sunday

Weekend weather: mostly dry, with rain on way for Sunday

NEWS 6 March 2026

Grain weights differ and impact seed rate

Grain weights differ and impact seed rate

Grain weights differ and impact seed rate

HUSBANDRY 4 March 2026

Home Farm: slurry season opens

Home Farm: slurry season opens

Home Farm: slurry season opens

VIEWPOINTS 14 January 2026

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Lemken shows latest wares in tilling, sowing and technology

Lemken shows latest wares in tilling, sowing and technology

Adapting to trends in tillage, such as the EU plough market declining by 50% in three years, Lemken has introduced a raft of new products. Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Lemken HQ in Germany.

NEWS 3 September 2025

Kildare grower praises low-cost pin-point retrofit Chinese auto steer

Kildare grower praises low-cost pin-point retrofit Chinese auto steer

Peter Thomas Keaveney catches up with Thomas Greene, who opted for a Chinese CHC Nav auto steer system, using the same unit on both his 2000 New Holland TS115 and 2012 Claas Lexion combine.

FARM MACHINERY 3 September 2025

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

We are not quite finished all the sowing but with the forecast so good, we are expecting to get it finished and rolled within the next day or so.

VIEWPOINTS 3 September 2025

Tillage Management: sowing, seed rates and safety

Tillage Management: sowing, seed rates and safety

Tillage farmers have been busy planting winter cereals in recent weeks and there are still plenty of crops to sow.

HUSBANDRY 3 September 2025

Tillage Podcast: budget, sowing and chats from Yorkshire

Tillage Podcast: budget, sowing and chats from Yorkshire

On this week’s Tillage Podcast, we visit an Italian ryegrass trial site in England, talk about the budget and winter cereal planting.

NEWS 3 September 2025

Planting under way as 2025 prices still not out

Planting under way as 2025 prices still not out

Tillage farmers are busy planting winter crops this week, despite the majority of them not knowing what final price they will be paid for grain they delivered in 2025.

NEWS 3 September 2025

Rye: you need a market before you plant it

Rye: you need a market before you plant it

Rye has grown in popularity on farms. It is another option to spread workload, but you need a market for it.

CROPS 3 September 2025

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Reducing calf pneumonia with vaccination on a Donegal dairy-beef farm

In east Donegal, farmer Gareth Peoples explains how a tailored vaccination programme transformed the health and performance of his calves, while reducing stress during this busy period.

Reducing calf pneumonia with vaccination on a Donegal dairy-beef farm

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