Beef
National Beef Welfare Scheme to continue in 2024
National Beef Welfare Scheme to continue in 2024 The National Beef Welfare Scheme (NBWS) – the replacement for BEEP-S – will continue into 2024, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has announced. Following the publication of Budget 2024 yesterday, October 10th, from which supports of €200/cow were unveiled, DAFM […]
11 October 2023
Aiming to improve animal performance without additional meal
Aiming to improve animal performance without additional meal Martin Connolly farms part-time just outside the village of Castleplunket in Co. Roscommon where he operates a dairy calf-to-bull beef system. The farm consists of 60 Ha of grassland in total, which is divided in four main blocks within a 3-mile radius of the […]
11 October 2023
Maintaining calf performance at grass for the rest of the grazing season this autumn
0 Maintaining calf performance at grass for the rest of the grazing season this autumn In general, the summer gone by has been tough on calves at grass. Most calf to beef producers found the growth rates of calves during the wet July and August has being back on previous years. The grass […]
9 October 2023
Controlling parasitic infection & pneumonia in growing & finishing beef cattle
0 Controlling parasitic infection & pneumonia in growing & finishing beef cattle To ensure a healthy weanling, the aim is to minimise their exposure to disease & maximise their defence against disease. Researchers Orla Keane, Bernadette Earley & Edward O’Riordan give information on control of stomach worms, lungworm & fluke & the prevention […]
7 October 2023
How are weaning and finishing cattle performing on Newford Farm?
0 How are weaning and finishing cattle performing on Newford Farm? Stephen Frend gives us an update on performance from Newford Farm. Weaning The calves were weaned in groups during the second and third week of September. This was done by housing the cows and calves separatelty in adjacent pens for two days […]
6 October 2023
Top tips for animal health at housing
0 Top tips for animal health at housing With the housing of animals coming around again, farmers’ thoughts are turning to parasite control, on this week’s Beef Edge podcast, Dr. Natascha Meunier, Beef Health Check , Programme Manager with Animal Health Ireland, discusses the parasites to look out for and how to treat […]
4 October 2023
What’s working for Future Beef farmer Ger McSweeney and his plans for the future
0 What’s working for Future Beef farmer Ger McSweeney and his plans for the future Aisling Molloy tells us about Ger McSweeney who is farming over 31ha in Toorenbawn, Millstreet with his wife Karen and their daughter Ella. They operate a spring calving suckler to beef system with bulls finished at 15.1 months […]
4 October 2023
Nutrition, health and performance on Kay O’Sullivan’s organic farm
0 Nutrition, health and performance on Kay O’Sullivan’s organic farm Kay is organically farming over 35 Ha near Mourneabbey Co Cork. Along with suckler cows she also has 75 ewes and 11Ha of Forestry. Animal Nutrition Kay sowed redstart, a kale/rape hybrid brassica crop on her farm this June. The aim of sowing […]
4 October 2023
Autumn Beef Health Walks
0 Autumn Beef Health Walks The Teagasc Beef Specialist and local Advisory team are hosting a series of Autumn Beef Health Walks in association with Animal Health Ireland (AHI). Topics to be discussed include Housing Requirements Winter Nutrition Animal Health Farm Safety See dates and venues below Wednesday, 4 October | 2pm | Cork […]
3 October 2023
Dates for your diary – scheme deadlines
0 Dates for your diary – scheme deadlines In the latest edition of the Teagasc Future Beef Newsletter, the team remind us of important upcoming scheme deadlines. October 15 Last day to record fertiliser closing stocks for 2023. October 16 Must be quality assured for the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) – 100% penalty […]
2 October 2023