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Thoughts really are now starting to turn to next year’s growing and if you are planning to cover down your beds for the winter (which will keep the worst of the bad weather off them, suppress weeds and prevent the rain from leaching nutrients from the soil), you need to get working on it.

Raised beds should now be bursting with nutrients and ready for planting in this season of growth.

Combining forestry with crop cultivation and livestock is a land management system that not only has been implemented across the world for the past 50-60 years, it was also relied upon in early Roman times. Why then is it that all of a sudden Agroforestry is such a hot topic? The simple answer really is Climate Change.

Although it was lovely to bask in the glorious and seemingly endless sun shine of early summer this year, the rain that we’ve had was well overdue and now we need more of it!

Fianna Fáil Deputy for Longford-Westmeath, Robert Troy, has welcomed the announcement of the Crop Loss Scheme to assist tillage farmers who suffered severe losses in 2016.

Two Galway farmers are in the running to take home the top prize at the prestigious Farmer of the Year Awards, which will place in Dublin next week.