National Tillage Conference

31 January 2018 31 January 2018 Building a more resilient tillage industry

Building a more resilient tillage industry is the theme of the upcoming Teagasc National Tillage Conference being held in the Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny on Wednesday 31^st January.  Against a background of good yields but challenging markets, a range of topics will be presented such as:

• New markets for crops and the use of Irish cereals in food and snackbars
• The need for more resilient production methods to cope with challenging disease and pest issues 
• Research update on aphid insecticide resistance and improving Irish cereal varieties
• Soil compaction, disease forecasting and six-row winter barley management
• Targeted and precise crop nutrition 

This year an innovative SMART, on-line, audience participation facility will allow those attending to drive the afternoon panel discussion.   The panel will address the results of a survey, dealing with key industry challenges, carried out during the conference.  

Topics covered will include:

• Winter Oat Agronomy
• The use of Irish cereals in novel baked and extruded snack formulations
• Disease control with a declining number of effective fungicides
• Insecticide resistance in the grain aphid, in Irish crops
• VICCI: Improving Irish cereal varieties
• Do six and two-row winter barleys need to be treated differently?
• Diagnosing soil compaction
• Assessing weather-based forecasting of ramularia in spring barley
• Prospects for site specific management of nitrogen for cereals
• Maximising yield potential through soil and fertiliser management
• Coping with current challenges

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