Ken Ferrie addresses how farmers can determine what tillage depth to establish, where to run the tool, and when to use the ...

Farmers wanting to hang onto the soil moisture in their fields are struggling to address compaction and ruts where there has ...

High costs of owning machinery are leading more farmers to hire out custom work on their operation. Kent Thiesse gives a look at how those custom farm costs look for 2025. Hiring custom farm work like ...

Due to the high cost of investment in farm machinery, an ever-increasing number of farm operators are hiring other farm ...

Irish tillage farmers have raised concerned about the wider impacts of around 10 months of continuous wet weather on their sector. Regular rainfall since last July has meant that conditions on fields ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings show a systematic ...

Tom Tierney was a conventional tillage farmer until he met a man while he was waiting for his hire car to be fixed in New Zealand. Now he is a passionate advocate of min-till conservation agriculture, ...

The ‘Managing Soils to Grow Profit’ tillage farm walk was recently hosted on Ballymaloe Farm in Cork. The farm walk was facilitated and hosted by Dairygold Agri Business in collaboration with Teagasc.

A 49ac farm in Laois comes with a traditional farmhouse and extensive farmyard, while 30ac parcel in East Cork has ‘picture-perfect ploughed ground’ Levalley Farm near Rathdowney in south Laois is a ...

The digging, stirring and overturning of soil by conventional ploughing in tillage farming is severely damaging earthworm populations around the world, say scientists. The findings published in the ...