Robots are holding over farms faster than anyone saw coming, as a initial entirely unconstrained plantation apparatus is apropos commercially available, definition machines will be means to totally take over a crowd of tasks. Tractors will expostulate with no rancher in a cab and specialised apparatus will be means to spray, plant, plow and weed […]
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Shane Kinsella along with his mother Siobhan and their 3 sons divert 84 cows nearby Piltown in Co. Kilkenny. The flock operates a spring-calving complement and cows are calved in a parsimonious calving block. In 2018, a flock achieved an normal of 622kg of divert solids sole from a extending height of 65ac. “We start […]
Image source: Shutterstock Grain markets remained aloof this week and destiny prices for Nov and Dec are not sparkling anyone. Weather opposite a globe, as always, will play a large partial in prices and this week a Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) published a really useful round-up of some of a categorical flourishing regions. […]
This week, farmers opposite a nation flooded to a fields to kickstart a 2019 silage season. This was brought on by a sunny, dry continue with unusually high temperatures – reaching 22° in some areas. Monitor swards For farmers who didn’t cut, they should be going out and examining their sealed paddocks to see what […]
It will come as no warn that a top normal cost paid for land final year was for potatoes in Leinster. The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (SCSI) and Teagasc published a ‘Annual Land Market Review and Outlook 2019’ this week and it gave a minute comment of land let sum for 2018. Tillage prolongation […]
Jack is preoccupied by a news that Fonterra is to form a “strategic alliance” with Coca-Cola. Was there ever such an evocative word as “strategic alliance”? Jack’s thoughts spin to some of a good vital alliances in history: Gilbert and Sullivan; Massey and Ferguson; Bonnie and Clyde – a list goes on. We should, Jack […]
A sum of 3 events on bast use in creation top-quality silage are set to take place in a north-west of a nation subsequent week. The events – patrician Silage 75 – are being hosted in counties Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal and are Department of Agriculture, Knowledge Transfer (KT) authorized beef, sheep and dairy events. […]
The proclamation currently that a 30-month age extent for Irish beef exports to Japan has been private is “a acquire step towards shortening processor selection requirements”, according to Joe Healy, a boss of a Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA). Healy, who trafficked to Japan final week with European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan […]
The Carbery Group has turn a latest processor to exhibit a divert cost for April, announcing a slight drop. The 4 west Cork co-ops will compensate 32.46c/L including VAT (30.8c/L incompatible VAT) for Apr milk, a rebate of 1c/L, a organisation has announced. This is a initial rebate in divert cost from Carbery this year […]
The proclamation of a €100 million beef support package by a European Commission has been hugely welcomed by those in a beef sector; however, it has lifted some doubt also. As was suggested by AgriLand on Wednesday night, a European Commission has concluded to a account of €50 million, while a Irish Government is also […]