Thomas Lonergan – Cahir, Co Tipperary It’s been a dry month in Tipperary. If more moisture doesn’t arrive in the coming weeks, crops may begin to suffer, explains Thomas. Spring sowing was completed two weeks ago and all crops have now emerged. The earlier sown barley crops are at the three leaf stage. With the exception of crow damage, emergence has been very good. Thomas applying the final split of nitrogen onto winter oats The barley crops have now received all of their nitrogen and stand at 156kg N/ha. The nitrogen was applied in two splits, roughly two weeks apart.