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"T1 rates are very robust and as the Irish don't suffer issues Links of London Black friendship Valentine Bracelet rusts, then a T0 would really only be appropriate as an insurance spray with high early season septoria levels and the risk of a delayed and mis-timed T1." Irish farmers are looking to reduce costs, with spray programmes an area where savings may be made. Teresa Rush looks at the issue. The focus is on cutting costs on Irish farms in following a year in which farm incomes fell by Links of London per cent. Some in the industry believe there is scope for cost saving on wheat disease control programmes, in spite of Ireland's high disease pressure. Average farm income in Eire in is estimated to have declined to per farm, the lowest since . Speaking at the Teagasc Outlook Conference in January, Liam Connolly, head of the National Farm Survey, Links of London Red and White and Black Valentine Bracelet farm gate prices plummeted last year, resulting in the largest annual decline in farm incomes in decades. The dairy sector suffered the largest decline but cereal farming also had a bad year. In theory at least there's a glimmer of hope for this year, with Teagasc economists predicting an upward movement in cereal prices and a reduction in input costs, which are likely to result in an increase in cereal crop gross margins. But despite these forecast improvements, the net margin for the average cereal producer is likely Links of London Blue Friendship Bracelet remain negative. "Cost cutting will be essential," says County Wicklow-based Teagasc adviser Martin Bourke, who is working to achieve cost reduction, based on a break-even yield of . He has pinpointed a number of major cost reduction targets: second wheats, fields incurring additional costs such as those with difficult to control weeds, the higher cost agronomy associated with early drilling, as well as minor targets, which include herbicide and fungicide inputs.