The Tillage Edge
By Teagasc
The Tillage Edge is Teagasc's new tillage podcast, presented by Michael Hennessy.
Bringing you weekly episodes covering agronomy needs of crops throughout the season with input from Teagasc researchers and views from across the industry.
Subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
The Tillage Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia (https://www.LastCastMedia.com) .
Bringing you weekly episodes covering agronomy needs of crops throughout the season with input from Teagasc researchers and views from across the industry.
Subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
The Tillage Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia (https://www.LastCastMedia.com) .
Latest episode
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Strip-till establishment with Michael Grace in Clane, Co Kildare
For this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy visited Michael Grace’s farm in Clane, Co Kildare to chat about the strip-till establishment system on the farm. Michael Grace explains that yields are as good as any … -
Update from Don Somers’ farm in Wexford
The poor spring weather was a key topic on the latest Tillage Edge podcast when Michael Hennessy chatted to both Don Somers, a farmer from Wexford, who is also participating in the Signpost Programme, and John Mahon, his Tillage Signpost … -
Spring cereal weed control and preventing resistance on your farm
Weed control is as important as ever in spring cereals and Ciaran Collins and Shay Phelan, both Tillage specialists in Teagasc, along with Vijaya Bhaskar, a weed researcher in Teagasc, are on this week’s Tillage Edge podcast to chat about… -
How to prepare for your BISS application consultation
With a substantial amount of BISS applications still to be submitted, there is growing pressure on all advisors to ensure farmer consultations are efficient so that all applications can be completed on time. John Brophy, a… -
Late sown spring cereals at high risk of BYDV in 2023
Late planted spring crops are at a higher risk of BYDV infection this year, as Dr. Louise McNamara, an entomologist in Oak Park Teagasc, explains on this week’s Tillage Edge podcast. To reduce this risk, she says, target an … -
Critical crop agronomy for late April and early May
Planting of spring crops continues at pace but there is still a substantial amount of planting to be completed especially in the north east of the country. Ciaran Collins and Shay Phelan, both Tillage Specialists in Teagas… -
Jim McCarthy update from Romania
On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Irishman Jim McCarthy, who manages a large tract of land in northern Romania, talks to Michael Hennessy about spring plantings, costs of inputs, machinery capacity and why many countries have banned th… -
Critical crop agronomy for mid-April
All tillage farmers have a long list of crop management tasks which needs to be completed as soon as possible and on this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Ciaran Collins and Shay Phelan, both Tillage Specialists in Teagasc, chat through the c… -
A view of current UK agricultural policies with Andy Mahon, a Dubliner farming in the UK
Andy Mahon, a Dubliner and farm manager of a large farm in the UK, joins Michael Hennessy on the latest Tillage Edge podcast to talk about the UK’s agriculture policy and the frustration it is causing to all farmers. Andy … -
The Potential of Protein Crops Part 4: Growing the right protein in the right place for the right market
