Beef
Lice treatment – failure to treat can adversely affect weight gain
Lice treatment – failure to treat can adversely affect weight gain By now all categories of stock will have been housed due to persistent rain, while fluke and worm treatments will have been given. Alan Dillon, DairyBeef 500 Programme Co-Ordinator, tells us about lice treatment and what can happen if we fail […]
26 October 2022
Improving the sustainability of your beef farm: lessons from across Europe – Irish BovINE Beef Meeting
Improving the sustainability of your beef farm: lessons from across Europe – Irish BovINE Beef Meeting Solutions to sustainability challenges facing the Irish beef sector will be addressed by a panel of Irish and European speakers at the third annual BovINE national meeting this evening, Tuesday, 25 October at 8.00pm. Beef farmers, […]
25 October 2022
DairyBeef 500 Farm Update October 2022 – Peter O’Hanrahan
DairyBeef 500 Farm Update October 2022 – Peter O’Hanrahan I operate a calf to beef system just outside Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, alongside my father Thomas, and we purchase between 180 and 200 mainly Holstein Friesian males calves annually. The production system has changed slightly over the past number of years. Initially all […]
24 October 2022
Examining Weight for Age
Examining Weight for Age Pearse Kelly, Head of Drystock Knowledge Transfer, Teagasc, explains how weight for age is a very good indicator of the performance of a group of animals. Unfortunately most beef farmers do not get to see this until the day they sell an animal. If it is below target, […]
19 October 2022
Why do only 24% of Irish suckler farmers calve their heifers at 24 months?
Why do only 24% of Irish suckler farmers calve their heifers at 24 months? We know a heifer calving at three will have eaten 65% more grass, 96% more silage and 33% more concentrate before she has had a calf compared to a heifer calving at 24 months. Martina Harrington, Teagasc Drystock […]
12 October 2022
Dairy Calf to Beef Course
0 Dairy Calf to Beef Course Teagasc will be commencing a new advanced dairy calf to beef course for new and existing dairy calf to beef farmers who wish to upskill and learn what it takes to run an economically and environmentally sustainable dairy calf to beef system. Teagasc will commence a new […]
6 October 2022
Maximising the Benefits of the autumn rotation planner
0 Maximising the Benefits of the autumn rotation planner Gabriel Trayers, Teagasc Future Beef Programme Advisor, tells you why you should start growing your spring grass now! Grass is unquestionably the cheapest feed for beef or sheep production. Maximising the use of grazed grass in the diet of cattle over their lifetime is […]
5 October 2022
Biodiversity on Newford Farm
0 Biodiversity on Newford Farm Newford Farm is working to enhancing the level of biodiversity on the farm. The farm has been selected as a demonstration farm as part of the Teagasc Signpost Programme. This will see a suite of measures introduced over the lifetime of the programme that will serve to reduce […]
2 October 2022
Organic Beef Open Day – Composting cattle manure
0 Organic Beef Open Day – Composting cattle manure Munoo Prasad, Composting Research and Advisory, Naas, and Michael Gaffney, Teagasc Horticultural Development, tell us how composting of manure produces a stable material free of disease and pests. Composting is an aerobic process used to decompose and stabilise organic material into a microbiologically stable […]
1 October 2022
Successful National Organic Beef Open Day
Successful National Organic Beef Open Day Over twelve hundred farmers attended the National Organic Beef Open Day on the farm of John Purcell, Ross, Golden, Cashel, Co Tipperary earlier this week. The open day was jointly organised by Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Bord Bia and provided […]
30 September 2022