This month’s Tillage Signpost and IPMWorks Farm Walks will address sustainability challenges and solutions on tillage farms such as water quality and nitrates, reducing pesticides, and developing non-plough-based systems on farms. IPMWorks is an EU-wide farm network established to demonstrate and promote cost-effective strategies on Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
Walk the farm of John Crowley, Tinnashrule, Ferns, Co. Wexford, Y21 TX82 on Tuesday, 28 June, 2022 at 11am.
Darren Allen’s Ballymaloe Farm is the venue for Wednesday’s walk on 29 June at 6pm. The farm is at Shanagarry, Co. Cork, P25 Y070.
You can also walk the farm of Will Stokes, Kilsheelan, Co. Tipperary, E91 C9Y on Thursday, 30 June at 11am.
John Crowley and Will Stokes are participants in the Teagasc Signpost Programme.
The programme is a multi-annual campaign to lead climate action by all Irish farmers. The aim is to achieve early progress in reducing gaseous emissions from Irish agriculture, improve water quality, maintain and sometimes improve biodiversity as well as reduce costs and create more profitable and sustainable farming enterprises.
It will also act as a test bed for on-farm carbon sequestration measurements so that this can, in time, be taken into account by the EPA in the national Greenhouse Gas inventory. It is a collaborative programme led by Teagasc and includes all relevant industry partners and state bodies such as Bord Bia.