Beef
The key points for sourcing, rearing and weaning calves
The key points for sourcing, rearing and weaning calves With calving kicking off on many dairy farms, Teagasc DairyBeef 500 Advisor, Tommy Cox features on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the key areas you need to focus on when sourcing, rearing and weaning calves. There are over 2,500 calves reared […]
10 January 2024
Top five tips for January on beef farms
Top five tips for January on beef farms From preparing your sheds and getting ready for calving, to understanding how changes to nitrates rules impact your farm, Martina Harrington, Manager of the Teagasc Future Beef Programme, offers her top five tips for the month of January. 1. Prepare your sheds and get […]
10 January 2024
Newford Farm: A Year in Review
0 Newford Farm: A Year in Review December was a relatively quiet month on Newford Farm spent getting used to our new surroundings in Athleague. Stephen Frend tells us more about the past year at Newford, and plans for the future. The cows received their annual IBR booster and were treated for lice. […]
9 January 2024
Optimizing Suckler Farming: Wesley Browne’s Approach
0 Optimizing Suckler Farming: Wesley Browne’s Approach Farming just outside Monaghan Town, Wesley Browne calves 90 cows in spring with all males finished as under-16 month old bulls and yearling heifers sold as breeding stock. Wesley’s farm is fragmented and heavy in nature and he has adopted a system that best suits him […]
8 January 2024
Ireland toe to toe with France in the race to 2050
0 Ireland toe to toe with France in the race to 2050 Peter Higgins, Teagasc B&T Drystock Adviser, tells us that the recent National Beef Conference in Ballinasloe showcased cutting-edge research, including updates on Irish beef breeding and low-input dairy-beef systems. The recent National Beef Conference held in Ballinasloe showcased some of the […]
7 January 2024
Watch: Gearing up for calving with Future Beef farmer Ruairi Cummins
0 Watch: Gearing up for calving with Future Beef farmer Ruairi Cummins Preparations for calving have been underway on Ruairi Cummins’ Future Beef farm in Kilmoganny, Co. Kilkenny, since cows were housed in early November. Ruairi runs a 45-cow, spring-calving suckler system, with bull calves brought through to slaughter at under-16 months and […]
6 January 2024
An update on drafting from the Tipperary Dairy Calf to Beef Demonstration Farm
0 An update on drafting from the Tipperary Dairy Calf to Beef Demonstration Farm The main focus for the Tipperary Dairy Calf to Beef Demonstration Farm for the coming weeks, writes Chloe Millar, is the finishing of the remaining 2022-born animals and preparing for the arrival of 340 dairy-beef calves this spring. As […]
5 January 2024
What’s in store in 2024?
0 What’s in store in 2024? Teagasc Cattle Specialist Aidan Murray is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an insight into the outlook for the coming year and what farmers can expect. Farmers have seen only a minor reduction in production costs in 2023 compared with 2022 and Aidan reviews the […]
3 January 2024
Avoiding poor winter thrive – the factors to consider
0 Avoiding poor winter thrive – the factors to consider Farmers often comment in the spring, when animals are returned to grass, that they are disappointed with how their animals have performed over the winter period, with average daily gains of as low as 0-0.3kg/day a common theme. In this article, Gordon Peppard, […]
3 January 2024
Livestock safety – understanding livestock behaviour
0 Livestock safety – understanding livestock behaviour Understanding the behaviour of livestock will facilitate handling, reduce stress, and improve both handler safety and animal welfare, writes Serena Gibbons, Education Officer, Teagasc Galway/Clare. Large animals can seriously injure handlers and/or themselves if they become excited or agitated. The renowned animal behaviourist Temple Gradin has […]
2 January 2024