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SALTEX 2021 integral to the industry’s recovery

SALTEX and Events Director, Luke Perry, believes that SALTEX 2021 will provide a huge opportunity for the grounds management industry to regroup, reunite and...
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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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Wild wetland work at FH Wetland Systems

FH Wetland Systems started out designing reed beds and treatment wetlands in 1996, but have evolved to become involved in a whole variety of...
THE RARE GREEN-WINGED ORCHID (ANACAMPTIS MORIO) APPEARED IN A PORTLAOISE HOUSING ESTATE LAWN WHEN MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL WERE KEPT OUT BY LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS. CLASSED AS ‘VULNERABLE’ IN IRELAND’S 2016 RED DATA LIST OF VASCULAR PLANTS, THIS MEANS IT HAS DECLINED BY AS MUCH AS 49% IN ITS AREA OF OCCUPANCY. PHOTO: DR FIONA MACGOWAN, CONSULTANT ECOLOGIST AND BOTANIST.

Corona time and ecological recovery РF̩idhlim Harty

Writing during the lockdown, Féidhlim Harty asks, has the pandemic been all bad for the planet or society? Last year, both British and Irish governments...
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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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#BloomAtHome – Bord Bia

In response to the cancellation of Bord Bia Bloom 2020, Bord Bia launched an alternative, virtual celebration #BloomAtHome. We encouraged the public to join...