Beef
Beef Edge: A TAMS update with Seamus Nolan
Teagasc Scheme Support Specialist, Seamus Nolan is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast, providing an update on the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS).
9 July 2025
5 practical tips for grass quality
Maintaining grass quality has become a huge challenge in recent weeks, writes Teagasc Beef Specialist, Catherine Egan who shares practical tips on getting grass quality back in check.
9 July 2025
Contract rearing – all you need to know
Seeking a contract rearer for your replacement heifers or thinking about diversifying your farm business to include a contract rearing enterprise? Then a new Teagasc publication ‘Guidelines to Contract Rearing’ will be of interest to you.
8 July 2025
Methane suppressing feed additives – Teagasc’s ongoing research
Accounting for 75% of Irish agricultural related greenhouse gas emissions, Dr. Paul Smith, a Research Officer based in Teagasc Grange, brings us up to date with Teagasc’s ongoing research in the area of methane and methane suppressing feed additives.
8 July 2025
5 key changes on Charlie Smyth’s DairyBeef 500 farm
In advance of a major farm walk this week, DairyBeef 500 Advisor, Fergal Maguire talks us through Charlie Smyth’s dairy beef system in Co. Cavan, identifying five key changes that have improved farm profitability and sustainability.
8 July 2025
Be vigilant of summer mastitis
Summer mastitis is normally associated with dry cows and heifers in the summer months (late June-mid September).
7 July 2025
Have you signed up to the National Genotyping Programme?
Cattle farmers, whether suckler or dairy, have been given another opportunity to join the National Genotyping Programme.
7 July 2025
SCEP – Halfway Review
Did you join the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) in 2023? SCEP is a 5-year scheme, now in its 3rd year. It is a good time for suckler farmers to review where they are now in relation to scheme targets. Alan Nolan, Drystock Advisor in Mayo takes a look at the key requirements and actions
5 July 2025
Labour efficient and profitable – the Smyths’ dairy-beef system
Father and son team, Charles and Charlie Smyth run a progressive and commercially successful dairy calf to beef operation just outside Virginia, Co. Cavan.
4 July 2025
Are you confident in your winter fodder budget?
With first-cut silage saved and most ground for second cut now closed, it’s the perfect time to check your fodder budget to ensure you’ve enough ground closed. Read some key tips here:
29 June 2025