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Precision features for Amazone's ZG-TX combi spreader

Amazone has equipped the ZG-TX combination spreader with an integrated weighing system and automatic rate control for lime spreading.

NEWS 23 July 2026

Precision features for Amazone's ZG-TX combi spreader

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Drop in cattle numbers sees fall in greenhouse gas emissions

Drop in cattle numbers sees fall in greenhouse gas emissions

NEWS 8 July 2026

40-60% of Irish soils sub-optimal for lime

40-60% of Irish soils sub-optimal for lime

NEWS 11 June 2026

Beef management: reseeding, liming and breeding bulls

Beef management: reseeding, liming and breeding bulls

Beef management: reseeding, liming and breeding bulls

MANAGEMENT 5 May 2026

Should you be testing the water filling your sprayer?

Should you be testing the water filling your sprayer?

Should you be testing the water filling your sprayer?

CROPS 28 April 2026

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Sowing beans and big beet yields

Sowing beans and big beet yields

This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Cork, Dublin and Tyrone where fertiliser is being spread and the last of the beet was pulled.

CROPS 1 January 1970

Avail of free P and K by applying lime

Avail of free P and K by applying lime

Eoin O’Carroll, Ground Limestone Producers Association, explains the little wins that can be achieved for P and K indexes by applying lime.

FERTILIZERS 1 January 1970

Q-Bed saves mixed Armagh farm time and money

Q-Bed saves mixed Armagh farm time and money

Since moving to a Q-Bed 324 cubicle bedder, Armagh farmers Samuel and Thomas Dickson have cut labour and bedding usage by a third and witnessed an improvement in cow cleanliness, writes Gary Abbott.

FARM MACHINERY 1 January 1970

Beef management: lime, closing paddocks and silage testing

Beef management: lime, closing paddocks and silage testing

Martin Merrick details how now might be the ideal time for lime, how paddocks now need to be closed up ahead of spring grazing and silage testing for management of feed ahead of the winter months.

MANAGEMENT 1 January 1970

Twenty ways to spend €20,000: ride on cubicle bedder

Twenty ways to spend €20,000: ride on cubicle bedder

In a series looking at potential investment ideas for dairy farms, Daire Cregg looks at the potential advantages of a cubicle bedder to reduce labour on farm.

NEWS 1 January 1970

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