Warm, dry weather has helped Scottish spring crops establish quickly, with disease levels low and fieldwork running well ahead of last year.

It’s been a postcode lottery for rain with the South West having had a good wetting while other areas like the East are still ...

You can see a report from Tipperary on this week’s tillage pages in the Irish Farmers Journal. The recent rain will do no harm at all and should help crops to push on. There has been a return to ...

The coming days will see winter wheat growers throughout Ireland push to keep septoria out of their fast-growing crops.

There is plenty of sunshine in the forecast for spraying herbicides and fungicides on winter and spring crops in the coming ...

With the flag leaf regarded as the most important leaf ... Fungicide performance in wheat, barley and oilseed rape Crucially, Joe says it is important to learn from recent history and not be ...

Tillage farmers are entering the business time of the year with key management decisions required for both winter and spring crops.

Shavuot culminates the journey, where we embrace our spiritual covenant with G-d. This bond, rooted in the Torah and Ten ...

Barley is more sensitive to day length than ... The second spray should be applied at flag leaf emergence typically between GS37 and GS39. The size of the crop canopy at GS30 to GS31 is a useful ...

My first degree was in agriculture in the US [at Southern Illinois University], studying primarily about food crops like corn, soybeans, wheat and barley. I chose agriculture ... including every leaf ...

Teagasc is working closely with the farmer on whose land the first Irish glyphosate resistant Italian ryegrass population has been identified, writes Richard Halleron.