Beef
Updates from Eamon and Donnchadh McCarthy’s Beef Farm
0 Updates from Eamon and Donnchadh McCarthy’s Beef Farm Eamon and his son Donnchadh are farming in Carrigeen, Glendine, Youghal, Co. Waterford. Both work part-time on the farm. Here they give us an update on their farm focusing on grassland and Breeding. Grassland While Eamon and Donnchadh were delighted to get their first-cut […]
6 July 2024
Dealing with current weather conditions on beef farms
0 Dealing with current weather conditions on beef farms As grass supplies have tightened on many farmers over the last few weeks, Martina Harrington, Manager of the Teagasc Future Beef Programme, shares key tips on building grass covers and fodder budgeting for the winter ahead. Grass Over the last few weeks, grass supplies […]
5 July 2024
Quality, traceability and trust – Supermac’s reasons for buying Irish beef
0 Quality, traceability and trust – Supermac’s reasons for buying Irish beef Since the opening of its first location 46 years ago on the Main Street in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Supermac’s, the company founded by Pat McDonagh, has grown to be a prominent buyer of Irish beef. Now with over 100 restaurants dotted […]
4 July 2024
Listen: The key messages from the BEEF2024 Dairy Calf-to-Beef Village
0 Listen: The key messages from the BEEF2024 Dairy Calf-to-Beef Village Alan Dillon, Teagasc DairyBeef 500 Manager, joins host Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to highlight the key messages discussed with farmers who visited the Dairy Calf-to-Beef Village as part of BEEF2024, Teagasc’s National Beef Open Day. Alan outlines the […]
3 July 2024
Investigation of summer scour syndrome
0 Investigation of summer scour syndrome Typically presenting in weaned dairy and dairy-beef calves within a month of turnout to grass, researchers in Teagasc Grange are investigating the summer scour syndrome (SSS). Rischi Robinson, a Walsh Scholar in the Teagasc Animal and Bioscience Programme, provided attendees with an overview of this research as […]
3 July 2024
Labour on beef farms
0 Labour on beef farms In advance of BEEF2024, Teagasc completed an online labour survey of beef farms, which examined the level of off-farm employment, hours worked and some of the challenges arising in developing sustainable beef systems. One of the key drivers on beef farms that influences many of the decisions that […]
2 July 2024
Commercial Beef Value benefits showcased to dairy-beef producers
0 Commercial Beef Value benefits showcased to dairy-beef producers Farmers visiting the Dairy Calf-to-Beef Village as part of BEEF2024, Teagasc’s National Beef Open Day, heard of the benefits of the Commercial Beef Value (CBV), and how its use at purchase time can result in more profitable and efficient dairy-beef systems. Exploring the CBV […]
2 July 2024
Lifetime clover systems study underway at Derrypatrick
0 Lifetime clover systems study underway at Derrypatrick Researchers in Teagasc Grange are examining the role clover – both white in grazing swards and red in conserved silage – can play in suckler beef systems through the Derrypatrick herd. The current Derrypatrick research project herd centres on ‘developing more sustainable suckler beef systems […]
1 July 2024
Five-star cows deliver more
0 Five-star cows deliver more Farmers attending BEEF2024 were told of an analysis completed by the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF), which compared the performance of one-star and five-star suckler cows on basis of their Replacement Index. Narrowed to cows born between August 2017 and April 2018, key findings of the analysis which […]
1 July 2024
Watch: Farm construction and work at height video released
Watch: Farm construction and work at height video released A new video which focuses on approaches to safely manage on-farm construction and farm maintenance projects was released at BEEF2024, the Teagasc National Beef Open Day, on June 26. Launched by the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the […]
30 June 2024