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Tillage
'We see agreements where one farmer will do all the ploughing and the other will do all the cultivating and drilling. This is more efficient and saves a lot of time, rather than trying to do it alone.' Photo: Roger Jones
Most farmers will be glad to see the back of 2023. It has been one of the worst seasons for tillage farmers in living memory, with some crops still unharvested and many sown winter crops in a very poor state. So 2023 will continue to have an impact on harvest 2024.
The fall-out of the poor autumn drilling is that there is going to be a big demand on spring seed for cereals and proteins. Not all of this will be Irish seed and one of the themes of the recent Enable Conservation Tillage conference was controlling grass weeds by way of farm biosecurity.
