The Tillage Edge
The Tillage Edge
Teagasc
John Mahon’s view of Conservation Ag and grass weeds in Ireland
25 minutes Posted Jan 13, 2022 at 6:00 am.
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This week’s Tillage Edge podcast chats to John Mahon who has been working in various roles in Irish agriculture over the past thirty years and John gives his perspective of conservation agriculture and grass weed control as it stands in the industry today.
He points out that there are a number of areas to be concerned about - especially the protection of existing herbicides and dealing with herbicide resistant grass weeds.
John recently joined the Teagasc Enable Conservation Tillage project as an advisor and he is in the process of getting up to speed in all aspects of the project. He outlines some of the areas where he will concentrate his efforts over the next few months and is encouraging farmers/agronomists to get in touch with him to arrange training sessions around non plough based establishment systems and grass weed identification/control.
You can contact John on [email protected]
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