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Hygeia’s nature safe range and BioGold Vigor

After the recent rainfall, now is the ideal time to put goodness back in soils and also provide plants with all the nutrient requirements...
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COVID 19 round-up – Teagasc

In order to assist growers and producers to act to reduce the impacts of COVID 19 and the associated national mitigation measures on their...
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Lockdown boosts small tunnel sales online

With everyone confined to their homes and gardens during the lockdown, Colm Warren Polyhouses saw an upsurge in web sales from homeowners keen to...
POWDERY MILDEW IS COMMONLY SEEN ON LUPINS AND MANY OTHER CROPS.

Managing foliage disease post Chlorothalonil – Teagasc

Irish weather and protected environments are highly favourable for foliar diseases of fruit, vegetable and ornamental crops. The financial impacts of a loss of...
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Celebrate strawberry season – Bord Bia

‘Celebrate Strawberry Season’ launched w/c May 18 and will run right through to September 2020. A revised COVID-19 response means that this year the...
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Rising to COVID-19 challenge

As lockdown took hold of the country on March 27, Irritec Irrigation Technology was slap bang in the middle of their busiest March in...
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Farmony signs European distribution agreement with Sananbio

Irish Agtech company, Farmony, has signed a European distribution deal with Sananbio for their vertical farming Radix systems. The Dublin-based startup, established in 2018,...
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Seasonal workers recruitment campaign – Teagasc

A national seasonal recruitment campaign led by Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) started in April with the aim of recruiting a...
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Mix it up with Mushrooms from Europe – Bord Bia

An application for more EU co-funded mushroom promotion in the UK, Ireland and (for the first time), Germany was made on June 3. The...
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Bayer agrees to pay $10.9bn to settle Roundup claims – RTÉ News

Bayer has agreed to settle thousands of US lawsuits claiming that its widely-used weed killer Roundup caused cancer for as much as $10.9 billion...