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Beef management: bedding materials, winter AI and soil testing

Martin Merrick gives advice on using appropriate bedding for your system, ensuring autumn calving cows get back in calf and soil testing over the winter period.

MANAGEMENT 17 December 2025

Beef management: bedding materials, winter AI and soil testing

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Tillage management: records, straw payments, fertiliser and wild oats

Tillage management: records, straw payments, fertiliser and wild oats

HUSBANDRY 17 December 2025

Spanish straw for sale at Winter Fair

Spanish straw for sale at Winter Fair

DEALER 17 December 2025

Tillage farmers to receive straw-chopping money this week

Tillage farmers to receive straw-chopping money this week

Tillage farmers to receive straw-chopping money this week

NEWS 16 December 2025

Choose Irish this Christmas and support Irish tillage and veg farmers

Choose Irish this Christmas and support Irish tillage and veg farmers

Choose Irish this Christmas and support Irish tillage and veg farmers

NEWS 16 December 2025

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Spread-a-Bale opens new manufacturing facility

Spread-a-Bale opens new manufacturing facility

With over 5,000 machines built to date, the company’s new facility has three times the floorspace of its previous premises, allowing the business to increase its production capacity.

NEWS 30 November 2025

Farmer Writes: system out of sync with TB

Farmer Writes: system out of sync with TB

The breeding bull sales are gone for this year anyway, and maybe next year too depending on how it plays out, writes Padraig Callanan.

FARMER WRITES 30 November 2025

Tillage Podcast: poor income figures and a chat with a US farmer

Tillage Podcast: poor income figures and a chat with a US farmer

This week’s podcast has news on tillage incomes and a chat with a US farmer in Iowa, one of the biggest cropping states in the United States.

NEWS 30 November 2025

Tillage Management: rainfall levels, payments and winter jobs

Tillage Management: rainfall levels, payments and winter jobs

Fields are very wet in most places at the minute so there won’t be too many out with a plough or a sprayer for another while.

HUSBANDRY 30 November 2025

The good and the bad: facts and figures

The good and the bad: facts and figures

In this article we provide details on tillage’s sustainability indicators from the bottom line to the carbon footprint.

NEWS 30 November 2025

Protein aid payments to hit bank accounts in coming days

Protein aid payments to hit bank accounts in coming days

Minister Heydon confirms commencement of €9.5m in payments under the Protein Aid Scheme.

NEWS 30 November 2025

Straw payments to commence from 16 December

Straw payments to commence from 16 December

Payments under the Straw Incorporation Measure are to begin on 16 December and are due to go out to over 2,700 applicants.

NEWS 30 November 2025

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

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