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A mixed cover crop on Furlongs farm. Walter Furlong Grain's tillage farm in Co Wexford is sequestering 636kg CO2/ac. The farm is sequestering more carbon than it is producing, with no reward. In the meantime, agriculture is coming under increasing pressure to reduce emissions, despite not being able to take account of sequestration, and the tillage area has declined by 40,000ha in four years (2015-2018) with little notice by officials. At the Irish Tillage and Land Use Society’s (ITLUS) summer webinar, Wally Furlong explained that his father Walter has been farming since 1980 and moved to ...
SHARING OPTIONS: The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society's (ITLUS's) summer field evening takes place online on 3 June. The Irish Tillage and Land Use Society's (ITLUS) summer field evening takes place online on 3 June at 7.30pm. Farmers John Monahan and John O'Neill will share their experiences of chopping straw, which is now routine on their farms. Over the past few weeks, the ITLUS council was busy visiting the farms to make short videos describing what's happening and viewers will have a chance to ask questions after the presentations. John Monahan est...
March 1, 2021 12:18 pm Teagasc research is confirming that autumn-grown catch crops are helping to reduce nutrient run-off from soils in tillage areas. A catch crop is a fast-growing crop that is grown between successive plantings of a main crop. According to Teagasc advisor Matt Boland, the Agricultural Catchments Programme was set up in 2008 to monitor and evaluate Ireland’s requirements under the EU Nitrates and Water Framework Directives. “There was also a remit established to provide measurements regarding the efficacy of Ireland’s nitrates derogation,” Boland said. “We are cur...