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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.

FARMER WRITES 19 March 2025

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.

HUSBANDRY 19 March 2025

Dairy Management: how much fertiliser to put on silage ground?

Aidan Brennan goes through the fertiliser rates for first cut silage and discusses how to manage grass as the first rotation comes to an end.

MANAGEMENT 19 March 2025

New white clover varieties are a 'step change'

Aidan Brennan reports from a technical open day at Teagasc Grange organised by Goldcrop where visitors heard about new white clover varieties and got an update on red clover trials.

RESEEDING 19 March 2025

The Grass Week: miniscule rainfall lends to more field work

The nearly non-existent rainfall over the past week or more has allowed for more field work to be completed as stock starts to hit grass.

GRASS & FEEDING 19 March 2025

EU tariffs on US to add €15/t on to Irish farmers’ feed costs – Mullooly

EU tariffs to be imposed on US feed - and potentially on Russian fertiliser - will affect Irish farmers, MEP Ciaran Mullooly has said.

NEWS 19 March 2025

Feed sales bounce as grass growth tanks

One midlands feed supplier said March had been “mad busy”, with sales of beef and dairy ration up at least 10%.

NEWS 19 March 2025

Roscommon contractor celebrates 50 years of lime spreading

Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Elphin in Co Roscommon to catch up with Padraig Berine who was busy spreading lime, now his 50th year at the job.

FARM MACHINERY 19 March 2025

From the Tramlines: all systems go in dry weather

This week, Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Cork, Wexford, and Donegal who are very busy in the fields planting spring crops.

CROPS 19 March 2025

Farmer's trust in the quality and reliability of Flourish Calf

Trust in both protein quality and the brand are the primary criteria in selecting calf milk replacer in the case of a generational dairy farmer based near the northeast shore of Lough Neagh.

Fertiliser

The Grass Week: second round a way off for some

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Farmer Writes: sowing a pleasure in a dusty March

Farmer Writes: sowing a pleasure in a dusty March

Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control

Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control

Farmer Writes: sowing a pleasure in a dusty March

Tillage Management: planting, fertiliser and disease control

Dairy Management: how much fertiliser to put on silage ground?

New white clover varieties are a 'step change'

The Grass Week: miniscule rainfall lends to more field work

EU tariffs on US to add €15/t on to Irish farmers’ feed costs – Mullooly

Feed sales bounce as grass growth tanks

Roscommon contractor celebrates 50 years of lime spreading

From the Tramlines: all systems go in dry weather

Farmer's trust in the quality and reliability of Flourish Calf

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