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Tillage Podcast: UK visit, prices and potatoes

This week’s show covers potatoes, Tillage Day and blackgrass control in the UK, as well as all the tillage news.

31 October 2024 NEWS
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Profitability and nature work ‘hand-in-hand’

Shane Fitzgerald and his fiancé Kate Curran received an award recognising the work they have done for nature at the annual Farming for Nature Gathering at the weekend.

30 October 2024 NEWS

Fluke could be worse this winter – expert

Farmers should not become complacent due to fluke burdens being lower than usual in recent years.

30 October 2024 NORTHERN IRELAND
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Farmer Writes: a much needed milk price boost

It was looking like it was going to be a very long winter for us when we had to start feeding strong in early September.

30 October 2024
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Farmers urged to put barriers in place to thwart thieves

Mark your property with a number that’s unique to you and keep a note of it in case it goes missing, gardaí advise farmers.

30 October 2024 NEWS

Weekend weather: mild and misty with spells of rain

Met Éireann has announced that the weekend will be rather unsettled, but mild, with highest temperatures of 17°C.

25 October 2024 NEWS
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Almost one in five machinery dealers see increase in business in 2024 – Genfitt

Eighteen per cent of Irish agri-trading businesses see an increase in business performance in 2024, according to the annual Genfitt Knowledge Report compiled from industry stakeholders.

23 October 2024 NEWS
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Farmer Writes: a good trade for weanlings

After weighing up the pros and cons of keeping our pedigree bull over the winter and selling him in spring, it was decided to bring him to a general mart sale.

23 October 2024
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No way to avoid climate change impact on farms – O’Mara

Director of Teagasc professor Frank O’Mara said the effect of climate change is already evident on Irish farms.

23 October 2024 CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT