Beef
Replacing used P and K
Replacing used P and K A recent Teagasc Beef Newsletter article addresses the decline in soil phosphorous and potassium levels due to reduced fertiliser application, its impact on nitrogen efficiency and farm emissions, and provides recommendations to mitigate these effects. Fertiliser sales of phosphorous (P) and potassium (K) have fallen considerably over […]
24 April 2024
Getting turnout right with dairy-beef calves
Getting turnout right with dairy-beef calves Fergal Maguire, DairyBeef 500 Advisor, flags the importance of ensuring the successful transition of dairy-beef calves to grass, noting why it’s critical for performance until housing. In the next month, calf to beef producers will start letting calves out to grass. In most cases, if the […]
24 April 2024
Growing Organics: Navigating a difficult spring in Kerry
Growing Organics: Navigating a difficult spring in Kerry Thomas Kavanagh, a participant in the Growing Organics Monitor Farm Programme, operates a suckler to weanling system outside Dingle, Co. Kerry. Like so many farms across the country, a wet spring has brought challenges in terms of grazing and readying silage crops. Farming 36ha […]
22 April 2024
Getting your cow back in calf – the key factors to consider
Getting your cow back in calf – the key factors to consider The Teagasc Future Beef team hosted a webinar recently, which focused on the challenge of ‘getting your cow back in calf’, Aisling Molloy summarises the key points in this article. The average gestation length of a beef cow is 288 […]
17 April 2024
Beef farm actions for the coming weeks
Beef farm actions for the coming weeks On the back of the current weather challenges, this week’s Beef Edge podcast features Gabriel Trayers, Future Beef Programme Advisor, and Alan Dillion, Manager of the DairyBeef 500 Campaign, who provide an update from around the country and offer tips and advice for beef farms […]
17 April 2024
Making a start at grazing – small numbers, large areas
Making a start at grazing – small numbers, large areas Turnout has been delayed on many beef farms across the country. With a turnaround in the weather forecast, Martina Harrington, Future Beef Programme Manager, provides some key tips on managing the transition back to grass. Martina explained: “A wet spring has limited […]
16 April 2024
Dairy Beef Index Series: Mullen family farm, County Meath
Dairy Beef Index Series: Mullen family farm, County Meath The DairyBeef 500 team discusses the operations of the Mullen family dairy farm in County Meath, in the first of five Dairy Beef Index Series articles. The Mullen family are farming 158 hectares of good free draining land outside Kells in County Meath. […]
15 April 2024
Treating scour challenges after an extended housing period
Treating scour challenges after an extended housing period A wet start to 2024 has delayed the turnout of spring-born calves and their dams to grass – heightening the risk of health issues developing. As the indoor period extends, rain continues to fall and straw supplies diminish or exhaust, the risk of a […]
13 April 2024
Challenging year curtails profitability on DairyBeef 500 farms
Challenging year curtails profitability on DairyBeef 500 farms Profitability levels recorded on farms enrolled in Teagasc’s DairyBeef 500 Campaign were curtailed by challenging weather conditions and somewhat lower levels of animal performance over the course of 2023, Alan Dillion, Co-ordinator of the Campaign, tells us more. Like the first quarter of this […]
11 April 2024
Tips and advice for closing silage ground
Tips and advice for closing silage ground With the difficult weather conditions, Gordon Peppard, DairyBeef 500 Advisor, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast with some timely tips in relation to closing ground for silage. Gordon highlights that on many farms silage ground won’t be grazed. However, this could provide an opportunity […]
10 April 2024