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Thrill of The Hill – Spawning Success
Type: Podcast
Thrill of the Hill is back! Season 3 #2 – Spawning Success. In this episode we hear from Ayrshire River Trust’s Stuart Brabbs and Struan Candlish about the quality of…
Video: Making the most of digestate applications
Type: Video
Thomas Neely from Entrust Environmental explains how farmers can benefit from applying digestate as an organic manure. With rising prices for artificial fertilisers many farmers are looking for…
Making pesticide use more sustainable: Sprayer maintenance
Type: Video
Ben Bryant, Precision Farming Manager, Chafer Machinery Ltd, goes through a crop sprayer from top to bottom, identifying the key areas for operators to monitor as well as…
Pesticide Information Note: How to conduct a LERAP
Type: Practical Guides
Local Environmental Risk Assessment for Pesticides (LERAP) allow sprayer operators to reduce the buffer zones shown on some product labels. Reading the label is key as no reduction will be…
Webinar: Are you milking your environment?
Type: Video
Future payments to dairy farmers may alter with more emphasis on the environment and biodiversity. The BRIDE – Biodiversity Regeneration in a Dairying Environment – project in Ireland…
Farm Management Handbook 2021/22
Topic: Livestock, Nutrition, Grassland, Beef Cattle, Dairy Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Chickens, Crops and Soils, Crop Health, Soils, Farm Woodland, Environment, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Water Management, Rural Business, Business Tools, Crofts & Small Farms, Brexit, New Entrants, Discussion Groups, Forage For Profit, Women in Agriculture, Organics, Common Grazings, Honeybee Group, Smallholders, Island & Remote Business Group
Type: Farm Management Handbook
The 42nd edition of the Farm Management Handbook is an essential tool for any progressive farm business, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for farmers, crofters, rural professionals,…
The Surprising Life of Freshwater Pearl Mussels
Type: Podcast
In this podcast Janette Sutherland chats to Mary McAndrew who is a project officer with the Pearl Mussel Project in Ireland. Ireland and Scotland have rivers in their High Nature…
Pesticides – Sprayer filling and washing areas (podcast)
Type: Podcast
The focus of this episode is pesticide filling and handling areas – the pollution risks, the legislation, design considerations and the safe disposal of pesticide solutions. Agricultural Consultant George Chalmers…
Pesticide Information Note: Buffer Zones
Type: Practical Guides
When applying pesticides, Buffer Zones have been used for a number of years to help protect water environments. Their use also helps producers avoid penalties from breaching cross compliance rules…
Emergency Authorisation Approval to use Asulam for Bracken Control in 2021
Following the ending of the approval to use Asulam for bracken control on 31 December 2012, temporary annual arrangements have been put in place to allow the use of Asulam to continue in 2021.
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