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My Farming Week: John Murphy, Garryroe, Ardfinnan, Co Tipperary 2022-03-15

The availability of green fodder for the farm animals has always been a challenge for the farmers of arid regions due to the harsh & unpredictable environment.

Michael Kennedy – Athenry, Co Galway There hasn’t been much rain in Galway over the past two weeks, explains Michael. However, conditions up until then had been very broken. During the month of May, over 100mm of rain fell on his farm. The kinder weather has been beneficial for crops and Michael hopes to make his first cut of silage this week. Michael applying a T1 fungicide onto his spring barley crops. His earlier planted potatoes are now 20cm in height and are coming along well. Blight pressure is building however, and he expects to apply the crop’s first fungicide this week.

In the past week or so the Government's Agri-Food Strategy 2030 called for 10% of utilised agricultural area to be dedicated to biodiversity so it’s an appropriate time to speak to tillage farmer Ger O’Meara who has 10 different crops growing on his farm near Cahir, Co Tipperary. So far Arable April has highlighted the many positives of the tillage sector in Ireland and implementing a good crop rotation is just one of the many measures the O’Mearas take to make the family farm more sustainable. Variety Among the crops on the O'Meara farm are winter rape, winter rye, winter barley, wint...