From the early summer heatwave of June to a rain-soaked July, the changeable weather patterns have brought uncertainty and forced the €50m annual industry to adapt
22 April 2021
Type Event Proceeding
On a recent Integrated Pest Management Webinar, which took place on Tuesday, 13 April, Eamonn Kehoe, Teagasc was joined by Stuart Mills, IPM Specialist, Fargo Ltd, UK to discuss the new advances in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Soft Fruit Crops.
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This webinar is part of the Teagasc Horticulture IPM and Weed control Series. View the other webinars in the series here
Event Time 7:30pm - 9pm
Venue Online Soft Fruit seminar, hosted by the Teagasc Horticulture Development Department.
Join Eamonn Kehoe, Teagasc Soft Fruit Advisor on Tuesday, 13th April at 7:30pm for an interactive seminar which focuses on the new advances in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for Soft Fruit Crops.
Eamonn will be joined by guest speaker Mr. Stuart Mills, IPM Specialist, Fargo Ltd, UK. A questions and answers session will take place towards the end of the event.
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08 April 2021
Type Event Proceeding
On a recent Integrated Pest Management Webinar, which took place on Tuesday, 30th March, Donall Flanagan and Eamonn Kehoe, Teagasc Horticulture Development Department were joined by Dr Clare Sampson, Technical Director with Russel IPM to focus on traps and pheromones for thrips and pest control.
Sticky traps are a well-tested monitoring product. The use of roller traps and pheromones are growing in popularity due to their effective role in pest control and managing insecticide resistance.
Dr Clare Sampson, discussed the uses of monitoring traps for the control of thrips and other pests in strawberry and protected ornamental crops.
Verona Murphy was the big spender in the 2019 by-election, her former party Fine Gael shelling out over €18,000 on her campaign, with an additional spend of over €12,000 by the Ramsgrange woman s team.
Fianna Fáil candidate Malcolm Byrne topped the poll in the Wexford by-election in the late November election, securing 12,506 first preference votes and it was a case of the two big parties battling it out in the spending stakes, as his campaign s bill came to close to €27,000.
Murphy, who left Fine Gael to go on and win a seat in February s general election as an Independent, secured 9,543 first preferences with Labour s George Lawlor behind her on 8,024 votes.