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Podcast: The Tillage Edge
Episode: The Wexford farmer who plans to use less nitrogen in 2022
Description: This week’s Tillage Edge podcast continues the series looking at farmers who are working closely with Teagasc in the Signpost Farms programme and other initiatives.
Don Somers, a farmer in Wexford, and his advisor John Pettit, joined Michael Hennessy to discuss Don’s farm practice.
Don has costed out various fertiliser practices and has identified that changing to protected urea on winter crops will return savings of close to €39/ha or close to €3,000 over the farm.
He is running a min-till establishment system for the past few years and has worked hard to build fertility over the last 8-9 years...