Farmers are being asked to check for middens – tennis ball-sized plugs constructed by earthworms – when monitoring their soils....
July 27, 2022
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture is working on plans to launch a £37 million five-year soil sampling scheme to improve...
June 24, 2021
Key target measures have been drafted as part of NI’s new river basin management strategy to crack down on water...
April 27, 2021
Silage can never be as high a quality of forage as the grass from which it was initially made. and...
April 1, 2021
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) is urging farmers to start sampling their soil now. Only...
October 30, 2018
Healthy soils are said to be the engine driving production on any farm; but just how much could poor soil...
August 22, 2018
Farmers who own ground need to take more responsibility for maintaining land fertility, a senior agri-business manager has warned. Speaking...
April 17, 2018
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) has launched a free soil sampling and analysis scheme, which is available to livestock...
June 10, 2017
Some of the most productive agricultural land in the UK is at risk of becoming unprofitable within a generation, according...
June 5, 2016
Lime is required on up to 65% of dairy farms, the statistic is a major concern as land is the...
October 18, 2015
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