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Environment
EPA: Agriculture the 'biggest driver' of algal blooms in rural areas
Recent findings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shown that agricultural sources of nitrogen (N) were the main causes...
Environment
Recent findings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shown that agricultural sources of nitrogen (N) were the main causes...
Tillage
February and early March can be frustrating, as pigeons will continue to graze crops and it is the effect of...
Tillage
Driving the use of biostimulants within production agriculture, has been the identification of bespoke bacteria (endophytes) with the ability to...
Tillage
The Fertilizer Association of Ireland (FAI) has just published a new technical bulletin entitled ‘Improving farm nitrogen use efficiency’ in...
Tillage
Planning for the tillage year ahead is an obvious priority at this time for those farmers committed to growing crops....
Environment
According to Teagasc, chemical fertiliser usage on Irish farms – grassland and tillage – continues to decline. Recently published figures...
Environment
A review of maximum nitrogen (N) limits and providing options to farmers to voluntarily reduce livestock numbers are among the...
Environment
The Agriculture Water Quality Working Group, chaired by the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM), has agreed that the...
Agri-Business
Cattle only nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) statements for the period of January 1 to November 30, 2023, are now...
Tillage
Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS) has recently compiled a series of guidelines, advising farmers on how they can make...
Dairy
European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius has confirmed that Ireland’s nitrate reduction must be on schedule. A...
Rural Life
Total fertiliser sales in 2023 have fallen by 18% to 1,135,860 tonnes compared to 2022, according to new data from...
Tillage
Getting the early agronomy of winter crops right is crucial a recent tillage conference heard. Seedtech director, Dr. Tim O’Donovan,...
Agri-Business
Nitrogen use efficiency in the food system is between 5% and 15% which indicates “huge” losses to the environment, a...
Agri-Business
Shrinking farm margins have left farmers “price-sensitive” to fertiliser purchases despite the fall in prices during the first half of...
Dairy
Cattle-only nitrogen and phosphorous (N and P) statements from January 1, to August 31, 2023 are now available online the...
Environment
Losses from the nitrogen cycle “cannot be eliminated” so the livestock sector needs to minimise them and hold more nitrogen...
Dairy Technical
The final date for spreading chemical fertiliser in 2023 is September 14 – which is a little over two weeks...