Tillage

Behind the 2026 FBD Young Farmer of the Year’s cucumber enterprise

Shane Halpin from Lusk, Co Dublin is the first horticulturalist to be crowned the FBD Young Farmer of the Year, we visit his enterprise to learn where it all began.

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‘You have to be on your game straight away’

With extensive success on the national stage, Paudi Deery from Co Monaghan is hoping to take home another title at this year’s National Ploughing Championship

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Watch: ‘understand the plough before you start making the changes’

Conor McKeown is looking to reclaim the top spot in the under-28 senior class in three weeks’ time at the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore.

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Watch: what’s in store for Ploughing 2026?

All roads lead to Screggan, Tullamore next month as the National Ploughing Association officially launches this year’s event which takes place 15-17 September.

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Impact of drought on farms

Billy Moran, tillage and beef farmer from Co Laois discusses the impact the drought is having in the south east.

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Yield Watch: the crop is harvested after a season of careful management - Episode 5

Ep 5: On the fifth instalment of Yield Watch Wexford farmer Isaac Wheelock harvests his crop of winter wheat and we chat to Cooney Furlong agronomist George Blackburn.

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A day in a processing plant during harvest

With yields back for malting barley, John Dalton from Dalton’s Chancellors Mills takes us through their purpose-built grain processing plant in Athy.

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Harvest 2026 is well under way

The Irish Farmers Journal visited John Culbert who was harvesting winter barley with his Massey Ferguson Activa combine. This video shows the action and gives an update on the harvest so far.

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Yield Watch: Gate closed on a now promising winter wheat crop - Episode 4

Ep 4: Isaac Wheelock's winter wheat crop has turned inside out with good management and nutrition. In this instalment of Yield Watch Goldcrop's John Dunne joins Isaac and Cooney Furlong agronomist George Blackburn.

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Syngenta’s Robodog working at Cereals 2026

See how this Robodog can help agronomists to walk crops and identify pests weeds and diseases.

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Farms in Portugal for WSC

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World Seed Congress - where some 8.8m tonnes of seed are traded

The World Seed Congress is held by the International Seed Federation and this year it took place in Lisbon, Portugal.

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