Michael Kennedy –
Athenry,
Co Galway
There hasn’t been much rain in Galway over the past two weeks, explains Michael. However, conditions up until then had been very broken. During the month of May, over 100mm of rain fell on his farm. The kinder weather has been beneficial for crops and Michael hopes to make his first cut of silage this week.
Michael applying a T1 fungicide onto his spring barley crops.
His earlier planted potatoes are now 20cm in height and are coming along well. Blight pressure is building however, and he expects to apply the crop’s first fungicide this week.
In the past week or so the Government s
Agri-Food Strategy 2030 called for 10% of utilised agricultural area to be dedicated to biodiversity so it’s an appropriate time to speak to tillage farmer Ger O’Meara who has 10 different crops growing on his farm near Cahir, Co Tipperary.
So far Arable April has highlighted the many positives of the tillage sector in Ireland and implementing a good crop rotation is just one of the many measures the O’Mearas take to make the family farm more sustainable.
Variety
Among the crops on the O Meara farm are winter rape, winter rye, winter barley, winter oats, winter wheat, spring beans, spring barley, spring oats, fodder beet and grass.
Add a new plant variety to the national list
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in GB and NI.
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You must add your new plant varieties to the UK’s national lists if you want to market them. You could be prosecuted if you do not.
The national lists are maintained by the Plant Variety Rights and Seeds Office (
PVS), which is part of the Animal and Plant Health Agency (
APHA).
You’ll be asked if you want to continue marketing the variety every 10 years or your variety will be removed from the list.