Beef
Reduced slaughter age strategy delivers in Mayo
Reduced slaughter age strategy delivers in Mayo Reducing the slaughter age of their beef animals has delivered impressive results for DairyBeef 500 participants Jarlath and Austin Ruane, reports Tommy Cox, DairyBeef 500 Advisor. One of the strategies which will help reduce greenhouse gases is the reduction in the age of slaughter of […]
30 September 2023
Teagasc Beef Budgets 2023/2024
Teagasc Beef Budgets 2023/2024 Every autumn Teagasc produces a set of financial budgets as a guide to beef farmers who are buying cattle for finishing over the following 18 months. Purchase prices are based on the prevailing market value at the time for weanlings and store cattle. Inputs required for finishing are […]
29 September 2023
“Getting Winter Ready” on-farm beef events
“Getting Winter Ready” on-farm beef events Teagasc and Animal Health Ireland (AHI) are running a series of on-farm beef events throughout October to highlight the importance of housing, nutrition and animal health to maximise performance over the winter months. The first in the series of nine events arranged across the country, will […]
27 September 2023
How Proinnsias Creedon maximises his farm performance over winter
How Proinnsias Creedon maximises his farm performance over winter Proinnsias Creedon, Future Beef farmer, joins host Catherine Egan on this week’s episode of The Beef Edge podcast to give an insight into his beef system and how he maximises performance over the winter. Proinnsias farms with his wife Máire and sons Ciarán, […]
27 September 2023
Getting ready for housing on DairyBeef 500 farms
Getting ready for housing on DairyBeef 500 farms With daylight hours declining and heavy rainfall over recent weeks, the housing of stock is under way or just around the corner on many farms throughout the country. Tommy Cox, DairyBeef 500 Advisor, reports that this is also the case among DairyBeef 500 participants. […]
27 September 2023
Final day to apply to the National Beef Welfare Scheme
Final day to apply to the National Beef Welfare Scheme Farmers have just hours left to apply to the National Beef Welfare Scheme, which will close to applications at midnight, today, September 26th. The scheme consists of two mandatory actions: meal feeding suckler calves pre and post weaning; and testing for the […]
26 September 2023
Managing grass with heavy rainfall on a Limerick DairyBeef 500 farm
Managing grass with heavy rainfall on a Limerick DairyBeef 500 farm Despite the wet conditions, Ciaran Bartley, a participant in the Teagasc DairyBeef 500 Campaign, has devised a plan to keep grass in the diet for as long as possible. Alan Dillion, DairyBeef 500 Campaign Co-ordinator, tells us more. While some parts […]
21 September 2023
Using genetics to take the guesswork out of selecting animals for beef
Using genetics to take the guesswork out of selecting animals for beef Selecting an animal with the appropriate genetics for beef production is a key contributor to profitability on beef farms nationally. Up until the launch of the Commercial Beef Value by the ICBF, a farmer’s ability to select animals for beef […]
21 September 2023
Reassessing beef budgets ahead of winter 2023
Reassessing beef budgets ahead of winter 2023 With the beef finishing business remaining as precarious as ever, Aidan Murray, Teagasc Beef Specialist, tells us more on the recently published Teagasc beef budgets for 2023. The beef finishing business is as precarious as ever. This year’s beef budgets indicate that prices as high […]
20 September 2023
Planning now for early Spring grass
Planning now for early Spring grass Where does time go? As we enter the final third of the year and the final few weeks of the grazing season, now is the ideal time to put a plan in place to have high quality grass available for your stock next spring. It is […]
18 September 2023