Beef
Welcome to BEEF2024
Welcome to BEEF2024 Professor Frank O’Mara, Director of Teagasc, welcomes attendees to the BEEF2024 Open Day today, Wednesday, 26th June in Teagasc, Grange, Co. Meath. I am delighted to welcome you to BEEF2024, our biennial beef open day, at Teagasc Grange. The theme of BEEF2024 is ‘Securing your future’ reflecting the multiple […]
26 June 2024
The Growing Resilient Organic Farming Systems project (GROFarmS)
The Growing Resilient Organic Farming Systems project (GROFarmS) With the launch the GROFarmS project taking place today at BEEF 2024 National Beef open day in Teagasc Grange, Teagasc organic specialist, Elaine Leavy, and Teagasc researcher, Kevin Kilcline, join Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast. They discuss the role this research […]
26 June 2024
Heavier carcasses at younger ages a key win for dairy-beef producer
Heavier carcasses at younger ages a key win for dairy-beef producer Reporting live from the DairyBeef 500 Forum at BEEF2024, Fergal Maguire highlights the key improvements Charlie Smyth has made to his farming system in recent years – all leading to a more profitable and efficient dairy-beef system. Alongside his father Charles, […]
26 June 2024
Meet the farmers taking centre stage at BEEF2024
Meet the farmers taking centre stage at BEEF2024 Setting the scene for the fast approaching BEEF2024 open day, Teagasc Beef Specialist, Catherine Egan introduces us to some of the farmers featuring in the various forums on the day. Along with showcasing the latest research and advice, BEEF2024 – taking place at Teagasc, […]
24 June 2024
Attention to detail drives earlier finishing
Attention to detail drives earlier finishing How to lower finishing age will be a key topic at the Teagasc Grange Open Day, writes Teagasc Beef Specialist Catherine Egan. Dara Walton, his wife Muireann and children Eloise(4) and Tom (2), have a suckler herd with 60 cows calving from the end of January […]
22 June 2024
Farmers wanted for ‘Beef-Quest’ to reduce finishing age
Farmers wanted for ‘Beef-Quest’ to reduce finishing age Dr Paul Smith, Research Officer in the Teagasc Climate Centre, tells us of a large-scale, on-farm study that aims to identify the most efficient on-farm measures for reducing the finishing age of Irish beef cattle. As will be outlined at the Teagasc Beef Open […]
21 June 2024
7 steps to manage mid-season grazing with DairyBeef 500 farmer Shane Cranny
7 steps to manage mid-season grazing with DairyBeef 500 farmer Shane Cranny Gordon Peppard DairyBeef 500 Programme Advisor, writes about the 7 steps DairyBeef 500 farmer Shane Cranny is taking to manage mid-season grazing. Following a difficult and late spring where cattle were turned out to grass a number of times before […]
19 June 2024
Update from Eamon & Donnchadh McCarthy, Future Beef Programme
Update from Eamon & Donnchadh McCarthy, Future Beef Programme Aisling Molloy discusses the management of grassland, silage production, livestock performance, and soil fertility on the farm of Eamon & Donnchadh McCarthy, Future Beef Programme. Grassland Silage was harvested on 21st May. The silage fields were grazed in spring and fertilised with slurry and […]
19 June 2024
Securing your future – a preview of BEEF2024
Securing your future – a preview of BEEF2024 Teagasc’s beef open day remains a vital element of Ireland’s robust beef sector, explain Paul Crosson, Beef Enterprise Leader, and Pearse Kelly, Head of Drystock Knowledge Transfer. The beef sector is a key contributor to Ireland’s rural economy, supporting more than 70,000 beef farmers […]
18 June 2024
Improving beef systems with clover – insights from the Derrypatrick Herd
Improving beef systems with clover – insights from the Derrypatrick Herd The Derrypatrick herd in Grange is set to take centre stage at BEEF2024. A key area of focus will be the use of white clover in beef systems. Through the Derrypatrick herd, researchers in Grange, like Peter Doyle, are examining how […]
17 June 2024