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b"On the first episode of Teagasc's Tillage Edge podcast, Michael Hennessy was joined by Dr. Richie Hackett to discuss nitrogen strategies in winter cereals and also malting barley.\\xa0 Richie has a wealth of research expertise and is the main researcher in this area in Ireland. \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nWinter crops took a battering last autumn from later than normal planting combined with constant wet soil conditions all the way to March this year.\\xa0 Yield potential may have suffered however Richie is upbeat about most crops.\\xa0 With good agronomic management and a kind season there is still good potential in most crops.\\n\\xa0\\nRichie explained where plant stands were good and where the tillers/shoots were retained good yield potential can be fulfilled.\\xa0 For that reason Richie doesn\\u2019t recommend deviating too far from the normal amount of nitrogen applied to crops. \\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nHe recommends where a crop\\u2019s potential isn\\u2019t great to reduce nitrogen input by 20 kg N/ha for each one ton/hectare lower yield than normal.\\xa0 However he also recommended not to reduce overall rates by more than 40kg N/ha.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nFor more episodes and information from the Tillage Edge podcast go to https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/crops/the-tillage-edge-podcast/\\n\\xa0\\nThe Tillage Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia (https://www.lastcastmedia.com/) ."