Entries by Gary Hearne

Technical Crop Update: Winter 2022

Author: George Blackburn 2022 will live long in the memory of tillage farmers. Coming off the back of a good year in 2021, the spring was fraught with trepidation given the massive increase in fertiliser prices and energy prices in general. The outbreak of the war in Ukraine changed the game completely. With one of […]

Managing Winter Forage Challenges

Author: Jack Scallan  It has been well documented over the last few months that grass quantity and quality were well below target levels, which meant that stock had to be supplemented with silage etc., during the later summer months. It is therefore no surprise that silage quantity and quality are very variable this year. Any […]

Clubroot Prevention In Oilseed Rape

Author: Jimmy Staples  Cover crops are a fundamental element of any sustainable arable farm and provide many benefits to both our soils and wider farming enterprises. These benefits include but are not limited to improving soil health, preventing soil erosion, combating weeds, increasing soil water infiltration and availability, mopping up nutrients, helping to break pest […]

The Importance Of Soil Sampling

Author: Philip Kennedy  With the increased cost of chemical fertilisers, coupled with increased spreading restrictions into 2023, now is a perfect time to get organised and take up-to-date soil samples. All arable land sown from January 1, 2023, must have an up-to-date soil sample available (within 3 years). The soil sample results combined with previous […]

Technical Crop Update: Summer 2022

The growing season of 2021/2022 will live long in the memory of cereal growers. Coming off the back of the best harvest in a generation in 2021 where we had the magic mix of yield, price and weather, much needed faith was restored into our sector. All stakeholders were filled with a renewed sense of […]

Controlling Weeds In Grassland

Author: Philip Kennedy    After second cut silage presents an ideal opportunity to control docks and chickweed in grassland. Weeds are soft and growthy after recent fertiliser applications and rain. An actively growing weed takes in chemicals a lot more efficiently, which will help achieve great weed control. Outlined below are various solutions to control […]

Grass weed control before and during harvest

Author: Jimmy Staples    Unfortunately, there is no room for a holiday when it comes to controlling grass weeds as one slip-up can lead to large quantities of seed being introduced back into the seed bank and undoing a lot of the good work that has already been done during the growing season. There are […]

Grazing 2022: Maintaining milk production alongside grass issues

Author: Jack Scallan    The last twelve months have seen many unprecedented changes in agriculture, both globally and domestically. The dairy industry did not escape these changes. There has been a major reduction in milk production globally due to mainly grain/feed and fertiliser prices which have increased exponentially over the last 18 months, while global […]

Cyfrowa metamorfoza europejskiego iGamingu: Architektura systemowa, telemetria behawioralna i ewolucja struktur transakcyjnych

Współczesny sektor rozrywki interaktywnej – obejmujący rozproszone systemy pokerowe, zaawansowane algorytmy kasynowe oraz wielopoziomowe platformy przetwarzania transakcji sportowych – przechodzi obecnie najbardziej radykalną rekonstrukcję infrastrukturalną w swojej historii. Monolityczne aplikacje serwerowe oraz klasyczne, relacyjne bazy danych zostały bezpowrotnie wyparte przez wysoce elastyczne, natywne dla środowisk chmurowych architektury mikrousługowe. Nowoczesne systemy backendowe realizują procesy automatycznego i […]

Technologická reštrukturalizácia európskeho iGamingového priemyslu: Integrácia decentralizovaných protokolov a analýza klientskeho správania

Súčasná digitálna architektúra zábavného priemyslu, do ktorej spadajú moderné online kasína, stávkové burzy s vysokou likviditou a globálne pokrové siete, prechádza najvýznamnejšou technologickou transformáciou za posledné dve dekády. Tradičné centralizované platformy, ktoré sa spoliehali na monolitické softvérové štruktúry a manuálne schvaľovanie finančných operácií, sú progresívne nahrádzané distribuovanými cloudovými riešeniami a automatizovanými prenosmi dát cez zabezpečené […]