More ears at harvest is the key to higher yield. That requires starting with a picket-fence stand with photocopied plants, achieved by adjusting your planter as conditions change from field to field ...

After a volatile 2025 pushed growers toward precision agriculture out of necessity, row crop farmers are entering the year ahead with more flexible, data-driven field strategies that favor targeted ...

A KERRY farmer has gone on trial at the Circuit Criminal Court in Tralee on five charges arising from a row with an adjoining farming family over access to a land-locked field near Listowel. The ...

A MAJOR disadvantage in manurial and other field experiments on trees and other perennial crops is the requirement for ‘guard rows’ between plots to restrict the roots of the experimental trees to the ...