National Tillage Conference
31 January 2018 31 January 2018
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Venue The Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny
Building a more resilient tillage industry
Venue The Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny
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 31st 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