Peas and beans emerged well once night-time temperatures rose, with little damage from pea and bean weevil. Vining peas have also provided a good opportunity for blackgrass control in problem fields.

2nd row: Headlight Elater (Pyrophorus noctilucus); Lined Click Beetle (Agriotes lineatus, or Agriotes segetis); Staphylinus erythropterus; Pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum, or Bruchus pisi); Bean weevil ...

2nd row: Headlight Elater (Pyrophorus noctilucus); Lined Click Beetle (Agriotes lineatus, or Agriotes segetis); Staphylinus erythropterus; Pea weevil (Bruchus pisorum, or Bruchus pisi); Bean weevil ...

Conor Kehoe talks to farmers in Westmeath, Down, and Waterford as farmers try to get spraying done between the showers.

A heavy cropping cultivar which can be sown in the autumn for harvesting the following spring and summer, or sown in spring for harvesting in the summer. Reaches approximately 80cm in height, needs ...

Spring barley In Cork and Tipperary, almost all spring barley is reported to be in the ground. However, in Donegal that ...