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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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Tillage management: harvesting, planting and early beans

Tillage management: harvesting, planting and early beans

HUSBANDRY 12 August 2026

Minister called on to reconvene national fodder committee

Minister called on to reconvene national fodder committee

Minister called on to reconvene national fodder committee

NEWS 10 August 2026

Ask your merchant for higher voluntary standard cover crop seed

Ask your merchant for higher voluntary standard cover crop seed

Ask your merchant for higher voluntary standard cover crop seed

HUSBANDRY 9 August 2026

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Watch: farmers opting for the mart to sell finished cattle

Watch: farmers opting for the mart to sell finished cattle

Oliver McCrystal caught up with Granard Mart manager Joseph Reilly following Wednesday's general cattle sale of bullocks, heifers and dry cows.

MARKETS 22 July 2026

Camera at the Mart: lively trade for quality weanlings in Manorhamilton

Camera at the Mart: lively trade for quality weanlings in Manorhamilton

Good-quality cattle met excellent demand at Manorhamilton's Mart bank holiday Monday sale, with farmers, exporters and northern buyers all active ringside.

NEWS 22 July 2026

Tillage Management: harvest, straw and planting catch crops

Tillage Management: harvest, straw and planting catch crops

Tillage farmers are busy at present from harvesting and baling to planting catch crops in some places after rain arrived.

HUSBANDRY 22 July 2026

Teagasc incomes contrast with farming

Teagasc incomes contrast with farming

Farmers shouldn’t begrudge Teagasc staff their decent wages, but we need to find a way to pay producers as well as advisers and researchers.

DEALER 22 July 2026

Tillage management: harvest continues, planning underway for next season

Tillage management: harvest continues, planning underway for next season

Harvest continues, but farmers do have to make decisions now that will affect what they grow in 2027 and need to be thinking of their cropping plan.

HUSBANDRY 22 July 2026

Reminder: trailer numbers mandatory for 2026 harvest

Reminder: trailer numbers mandatory for 2026 harvest

If you are drawing grain this harvest and are part of the Irish Grain Assurance Scheme, then you need trailer numbers on your grain trailers.

HUSBANDRY 22 July 2026

Tillage Management: harvest, catch crops and beet

Tillage Management: harvest, catch crops and beet

On this week’s management notes we look at beet and beans, as well as catch crop planting deadlines.

HUSBANDRY 22 July 2026

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