Year: 2005
Type: report
Abstract: Comparisons are also made between fertilizer use and Teagasc fertilizer advice for the different crops and the report points to possible explanations for the findings.In order to allow comparison with fertilizer use data for the years since 1995, the FUS for the years 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 year were repeated using exactly the same table categories and statistical methods and many comparison tables are presented in this report.The report uses metric measurements throughout, and in the tables, usages of P and K are presented in elemental form.To facilitate comparisons with different surveys and reports in this and other countries, a range of conversion factors for metric, imperial and popular units and for conversion between elemental P and K and their oxide forms is listed in Appendix 5.National Farm Surveys have as their basis, a random selection of farms to represent the major farm systems and sizes.These are selected using information from the CSO Census of Agriculture 2000 (Connolly et al, 2004).Farms are classified into major farming system according to the standardised EU typology used by FADN.This is then further simplified so that 8 EU farm types are reduced to the following 6 main farm types namely: dairying, dairying with other enterprises, cattle rearing, cattle with other, mainly sheep and mainly tillage systems.These systems refer to the dominant enterprise in each group.However, in order to simplify the large number of tables in this document, the farm types were further reduced to four namely dairying, cattle, sheep and tillage.The estimated farm distribution used in the NFS 2003 is shown in Table 5 in this simplified classification.
Source: T-Stór (Teagasc)
Authors: Brian Coulter, William Murphy, N. Culleton, Gabriela M. Quinlan, Liam Connolly
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2337858239