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LG Armada: The Highest Yielding Winter Oilseed Rape Variety on the DAFM 2027 Recommended List
Arable Seeds, Oilseed Rape
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has this week published its new Recommended List for Winter Oilseed Rape, covering varieties recommended for sowing in autumn 2026. For Irish growers and agronomists planning…

VistaMilk, Goldcrop and FBA Laboratories launch new research collaboration
Grassland, Press Release, Research
The project aims to deliver rapid, accurate feed nutritive value analysis to support data-driven decision-making across Ireland’s pasture-based livestock sector. A key output will be the integration of advanced forage analysis…

No.1 Recommended Grass & Clover Varieties for 2026
Forage Seed, Pasture Profit Index, White CloverBanbridge, Clodagh and Dungloe
The Pasture Profit Index (PPI) for 2026 has now been released, confirming the top-performing grass and clover varieties for Irish farming systems.
For 2026, Banbridge, Clodagh and Dungloe rank as the No.1 recommended…

Winter Barley – “Better to be looking at it than looking for it….
Arable Seeds, Winter Barley
As we move into February, the noticeable increase in daylight hours is welcomed by all of us. The plants in the fields are also beginning to respond and are benefitting from increased sunlight, temperature and drying opportunities.
This…

Maize and Beet | Technical Seminars | 2024
Beet, MaizeWe would be delighted if you could join us for Goldcrop’s Maize and Beet Technical Seminar’s 2024, in Cork or Louth. Crops on both sites are looking excellent this year so we hope you can join. If you would like to forward this invite to…

Winter Oilseed Rape – Sticking With The Plan!
Arable Seeds, Winter Oilseed Rape
As a farmer, I am quite a fan of rotation. However, we were not always using rotation on our farm and up until 2007, our rotation (or lack of!) consisted of continuous spring barley. While the spring barley cropping was relatively simple,…

Slug damage in Winter Hybrid Rye – Not all varieties are Equal!
Top Tips, Arable Seeds
Winter Hybrid Rye has demonstrated itself as a high yielding crop that can fit in a rotation as either a first cereal after a break crop or following a cereal crop where it’s strong resistance to the Take-All fungus can allow it…

KWS Dawsum | Everything I want in a Wheat Variety
Arable Seeds, Winter Wheat
The harvest of 2023 will be one that many people will want to put behind them, weather made it a battle to plant crops and a battle to harvest them. We must be thankful that 2022 was exceptionally good, and we hope that this will be a…
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