Beef
Protect suckler cow conception rates during drought
Martina Harrington, Manager of the Teagasc Future Beef Programme, discusses how drought conditions are coinciding with the suckler breeding season and outlines the practical steps farmers can take to maintain conception rates.
20 July 2026
Driving Sustainable Calf to Beef Systems at the Beef Pulse Forum
A bonus episode of The Beef Edge featuring a recording of the Beef Pulse forum on ‘Driving Sustainable Calf to Beef Systems’ which was chaired by Breffni O’Brien, Beef specialist with Agriland.
19 July 2026
Market and Policy Outlook at the Beef Pulse Forum
A bonus episode of The Beef Edge podcast, featuring a recording of the Beef Pulse Forum on Market and Policy Outlook from the Teagasc BEEF2026 Open Day.
18 July 2026
Signpost update: Helping later-born calves catch up
Regardless of year, dairy-beef farmers will often end up with a cohort of lighter calves. Here, DairyBeef 500 Programme participant, Denis Hickey outlines his strategy to keep younger and lighter calves thriving at grass.
17 July 2026
Tipperary Dairy Beef Demonstration Farm Open Day
Tipperary Dairy Beef Demonstration Farm will host a Major Open Day on Wednesday, 22nd July at 11:00 am.
16 July 2026
Inside the Tipperary Dairy Calf-to-Beef Demonstration Farm
Teagasc Technologist to the Tipperary Dairy Calf-to-Beef Demonstration Farm, Chloe Millar, joins Catherine Egan on the Beef Edge podcast to give an update on the farm and an insight into the National Open Day taking place on the farm on Wednesday 22nd July at 11am.
15 July 2026
Mixed farm system paying dividends in Co. Roscommon
Farmers in the west of Ireland and particularly Roscommon are renowned for operating a mixed grazing system (running both cattle and a mid-season lambing ewe flock), which is no different on the farm of Olivia Hynes, Four Roads, Co. Roscommon, participant in the Future Beef Programme. Producing quality weanlings and finishing lambs off grass is a key feature of her efficient farm business.
15 July 2026
Signpost update: Winter forage, breeding and finishing with Kay O’Sullivan
Very much a case of if it’s not broken, don’t fix it, Kay O’Sullivan, organic farmer and participant in the Teagasc Future Beef and Signpost Programmes, tells us about the benefits she’s seen from growing forage crops as a winter food source over the last five years.
14 July 2026
Dry weather in the South-East: Advice on grazing, supplementation and silage feeding
Soil moisture deficits are continuing to increase across the South-East, and with grass beginning to burn back on the driest farms, Future Beef Programme Manager, Martina Harrington outlines the actions farmers should take now.
13 July 2026
Trends in off-farm employment and pensions on Irish farms
Preliminary results of the National Farm Survey 2025 were presented earlier this week. Interesting trends in both farm holder and farm household (farmer and spouse) off-farm employment across farm systems were presented.
12 July 2026