Beef
The National Beef Conference Panel Discussion
The National Beef Conference Panel Discussion This week’s episode of the Beef Edge podcast is a recording of the Teagasc National Beef Conference panel discussion titled ‘Delivering sustainability at farm level’ which took place on the 13th December in the Shearwater hotel, Ballinasloe. It was Facilitated by Matt O’Keeffe, from the Irish […]
21 December 2022
Maximising weight gain over the winter period with Aonghusa Fahy
Maximising weight gain over the winter period with Aonghusa Fahy Aonghusa farms with his wife Olivia and two children in Tullira, just outside Ardrahan, Co. Galway. He is part-time farming and working full-time off farm as a secondary school teacher, teaching construction, DGC and agricultural science. The farm is divided with 22ha […]
21 December 2022
DairyBeef 500 Newsletter – December 2022
DairyBeef 500 Newsletter – December 2022 The December newsletter from the DairyBeef 500 team features a farm update from JP Hammersley, red clover silage in Roscommon, managing weanlings over the winter months, supplementation for finishing animals, winter dosing and a look at how Spanish beef farms compare to Ireland. Red clover silage | Winter […]
16 December 2022
National Beef Conference 2022
National Beef Conference 2022 “Profitable Pathways to Sustainable Beef Farming” – Conference Proceedings Download Publication (PDF) Irish beef farmers have consistently shown that they can adapt to the many new challenges and opportunities that they have had to face over the years. The last 12 months have been particularly challenging with significant increases in […]
16 December 2022
Profitable Pathways to Sustainable Beef farming
Profitable Pathways to Sustainable Beef farming The theme of this year’s Teagasc National Beef Conference was “Profitable Pathways to Sustainable Beef Farming. It took place on Tuesday, 13 December in the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe, County Galway. The opening address was delivered by the Teagasc Director, Professor Frank O’Mara. He said; “Irish […]
14 December 2022
ACRES Update
ACRES Update Teagasc Environment specialist, Catherine Keena, joins Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an update on the new Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme also known as ACRES. This new €1.5 billion flagship agri-environment scheme closed last week for applications of which there were 47,000 applications. There were 27,000 […]
14 December 2022
Beef farmers are willing agents of change to drive sustainability of the sector confirms BovINE
Beef farmers are willing agents of change to drive sustainability of the sector confirms BovINE For its final dissemination conference in Brussels (1st December 2022), BovINE partners welcomed online over 250 delegates from across Europe in the morning, and key EU policy-players including from DG Agri, DG Sante, Copa-Cogeca and EUFRAS to […]
12 December 2022
Has red clover a role in your beef production system?
0 Has red clover a role in your beef production system? Teagasc researcher, Nicky Byrne, joins Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss if red clover has a role on beef farms as well as previewing the upcoming National Beef Conference taking place on the 13th December in the Shearwater […]
8 December 2022
DairyBeef 500 Winter Update – JP Hammersley
0 DairyBeef 500 Winter Update – JP Hammersley Farming in Lattin, Co. Tipperary, JP Hammersley operates a calf to beef system where 70-80 Friesian bull calves are carried to beef. After initially operating a 30-month steer system, JP has made strides through improved animal performance to transition to a 21 and 24 month […]
7 December 2022
Concentrate supplementation for finishing cattle this winter
0 Concentrate supplementation for finishing cattle this winter While the cost of gaining weight indoors on a forage and concentrate diet is much higher than at grass, if correct levels of thrive are achieved on finishing stock they should come close to covering their costs in most years. Alan Dillon, DairyBeef 500 Campaign […]
6 December 2022