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Tillage Management: oilseed rape and crop planning

Farmers need to do their sums and make cropping plans accordingly before planting crops Siobhán Walsh.

HUSBANDRY 19 August 2026

Tillage Management: oilseed rape and crop planning

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Safety must be first priority at harvest time

Safety must be first priority at harvest time

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Roadside ragwort: who has a duty to control it?

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Tillage Management: hot weather, weeds and walking crops

Tillage Management: hot weather, weeds and walking crops

At this time of the year tillage farmers could be out walking crops and examining fields and decisions.

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Grass weeds worse this season, but no longer being ignored

Grass weeds worse this season, but no longer being ignored

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Last chance to resistance test problem tillage weeds for free

Last chance to resistance test problem tillage weeds for free

Harvest 2026 is the last chance to avail of free, herbicide resistance testing at Teagasc Oak Park under the Department funded EVOLVE project.

NEWS 17 June 2026

Tillage management: yellow leaves from virus and grass weeds

Tillage management: yellow leaves from virus and grass weeds

Yellow leaves may not hit your yield very badly, but it looks bad in the fields at the minute and seems to be in most spring barley.

HUSBANDRY 17 June 2026

Robodog could become an agronomist’s best friend

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