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Home Farm: Beef is expensive to produce right now
Matt Dempsey
We can only aim to maximise production from the stores on the rapidly growing high quality grass at this time of the year.
30 April 2025 News
Accompany the Agronomist: herbicides the big job this week
Herbicides on spring cereals and fungicides on winter wheat are the priorities on tillage farms this week.
25 April 2025 News
Weekend weather: warm, wet and cloudy
Met Éireann has said that the weekend will be rather cloudy with spells of showers and highest temperatures of 17°C.
Home Farm: Extraordinary spring for cattle trade
I was disappointed to see some Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV) on the Cassia winter barley.
23 April 2025 Viewpoints
Tillage Podcast: walking crops in Tipp and talking resistant weeds
On this week’s show we’re out walking crops with an agronomist in Tipperary and learn about herbicide resistance.
17 April 2025 News
Crops looking Tipp top in the Golden Vale
In this week’s installment of Accompany the Agronomist we met Tim McCarthy of Dairygold to look at crops in Tipperary.
16 April 2025 News
Tillage management: flag leaves, weeds and fungicides
Flag leaves are appearing on winter barley, while weeds will soon be sprayed on early-sown spring crops.
16 April 2025 Husbandry
Managing varieties not crops to target issues
It is important to know the strengths and weaknesses of the varieties that you are growing, writes Siobhán Walsh.
15 April 2025 Crop protection
Products coming off the market in 2025
Potato farmers need to keep an eye on products in their chemical store which need to be used up this season.
9 April 2025 Crop protection
From the Tramlines: wonderful weather takes some pressure off
The good weather of late has taken some pressure off farmers. There is plenty of work to be done, but the weather is there to do it.
2 April 2025 From the Tramlines
Farmer Writes: sowing a pleasure in a dusty March
While this weather was very welcome, it could be overdone and a rise in temperatures would be nice.
26 March 2025 Farmer Writes
Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control
It’s all happening in the tillage fields at present from sowing to spraying and spreading writes Siobhán Walsh.
26 March 2025 Husbandry