Beef
Bull finishing and winter feed on the McCarthys’ Future Beef farm
Father and son team Eamon and Donnchadh McCarthy are participants in the Teagasc Future Beef and Signpost Programmes. Here, Eamon McCarthy takes us through bull performance, grassland management and breeding performance.
12 July 2025
Maintaining calf performance – Gareth Peoples’ essentials
Teagasc DairyBeef 500 and Signpost Programme participant, Gareth Peoples fills us in on his approach to managing calves over the summer months, delving into his feeding and dosing protocols to ensure calf performance.
11 July 2025
Heat stress in cattle
With warmer temperatures forecast, now's a great time to refresh on heat stress in cattle, and the management tasks needed to prevent it becoming an issue.
10 July 2025
Beef Edge: A TAMS update with Seamus Nolan
Teagasc Scheme Support Specialist, Seamus Nolan is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast, providing an update on the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS).
9 July 2025
5 practical tips for grass quality
Maintaining grass quality has become a huge challenge in recent weeks, writes Teagasc Beef Specialist, Catherine Egan who shares practical tips on getting grass quality back in check.
9 July 2025
Contract rearing – all you need to know
Seeking a contract rearer for your replacement heifers or thinking about diversifying your farm business to include a contract rearing enterprise? Then a new Teagasc publication ‘Guidelines to Contract Rearing’ will be of interest to you.
8 July 2025
Methane suppressing feed additives – Teagasc’s ongoing research
Accounting for 75% of Irish agricultural related greenhouse gas emissions, Dr. Paul Smith, a Research Officer based in Teagasc Grange, brings us up to date with Teagasc’s ongoing research in the area of methane and methane suppressing feed additives.
8 July 2025
5 key changes on Charlie Smyth’s DairyBeef 500 farm
In advance of a major farm walk this week, DairyBeef 500 Advisor, Fergal Maguire talks us through Charlie Smyth’s dairy beef system in Co. Cavan, identifying five key changes that have improved farm profitability and sustainability.
8 July 2025
Be vigilant of summer mastitis
Summer mastitis is normally associated with dry cows and heifers in the summer months (late June-mid September).
7 July 2025
Have you signed up to the National Genotyping Programme?
Cattle farmers, whether suckler or dairy, have been given another opportunity to join the National Genotyping Programme.
7 July 2025