Happy New Year from all at UGS 🎆 Updating your calendar or new diary? Please note the Society’s Conference which takes place on Tuesday 23rd January 2024 Dunadry Hotel And Gardens 🐄🐂🐑 David Linton John Egerton Harold Johnston

Great day so far at the Oxford farming conference.

Fantastic day at the first ever Knowledge Exchange Conference in NI, thanks to all the speakers, the farmers, merchants, industry people who all attended and to all the Yara team who helped make this happen.

Farmer succession and well being two important messages at the Ulster Grassland Society Annual Conference 2024 from Dr Shane Conway

Great session being run with Rural Support to help us all cope with the pressures and stresses in farming.

Great day at Ballymoney show always nice to sponsor the youth. #Beefyounghandlers

Jonathan Baxter reviewed his crop nutrition plans this year following soil analysis, which displayed high levels of phosphorus.🤔 With support from his merchant and Yara, Jonathan decided to reduce the level of soil Phosphorus, by switching to YaraMila Zero P Cut compound.🌿

A warm welcome to Matthew Hall from CAFRE Greenmount, Northern Ireland who is joining us for a placement year as part of his agricultural degree. What better way to start at #Yara than by being out in the field, monitoring our #YaraVita grassland trials.🌱📈

Great to attend Ulster Grassland Society farm walk yesterday evening. A big emphasis on clover and multi species swards on this farm.

Attended the Lely open day in Strabane on Wednesday. Very interesting to see robots working in a grazing system!

Fantastic farm walk at the Pollock Family farm with the Ulster Grassland Society. Jessica and her Dad running a very efficient herd with their three-way cross breeding programme.

Great to be invited back to my old school Ballycastle High School to speak to the Agri club with over 80 members in attendance. Hopefully they got an insight into working in the Agri sector and see that it’s the best sector to work in #notbias

Why are nitrogen fertilizer prices rising? Look at urea: - China 5M tons short normal export - Iran production offline, typically 4.8M tons per year - Europe still 75% operating rate, missing 3M tons production 5M + 4.8M + 3M = 12.8M tons per year That is 1M tons missing per

An overview of Slurry Separation from Killen Bros Contracting 🚜💨 Improved nutrient efficiency, storage and application rates. Reducing emissions while boosting growth from organic matter.. It's a win-win #innovation youtu.be/KAbK53gTb80?si…

🗓️ Save the Date 🗓️ UGS Spring Meeting with farm walk to farm of Philip Truesdale at Ballyward, Co Down on Wednesday 30th April Start up dairying with focus on maximising grass growth for solid, high fertility cows on a simple system 🐄 More details to follow

Dairy farmer Philip Truesdale invites UGS members & friends to the farm walk on his farm at Ballyward, Co Down on Wednesday 30th April commencing at 11.30am Prior booking is essential via 07920037910

Some day and some views at Philip Truesdale’s farm #milkfromgrass💪

Spring nutrition sorted with YaraMila NEW 20’s + S Yara Crop Nutrition Business Manager, Andrew Morrison, introduces YaraMila NEW 20’s + S. The ideal fertiliser choice for spring cereals and grassland. 🌱 Find out more - ow.ly/1FFq50VRE5J

🎧 New #Podcast Episode – YaraVita Croplift Pro & Foliar Nutrition Ken Rundle is joined by Yara Ireland Area Manager, John Hegarty, for a conversation around Croplift Pro and the role of #foliar #fertilisers in #crop #nutrition. Listen now: ow.ly/iz7T50WmUuG

🌱Registration for Zone 4 of the Soil Nutrient Health Scheme closes 1 Sep. Farm businesses in Co Antrim & those unregistered in Zones 1, 2 & 3 can now sign up. Alistair Craig talks about the scheme & benefit of training provided. DAERA CAFRE youtu.be/F-oRpE-KTP0