Dairy
Managing cash, costs and volatility – preparing for 2026
Teagasc Dairy Specialist, Patrick Gowing joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss how to best manage surplus cash, build financial resilience, review production costs and ensure farmers best prepared for 2026.
27 October 2025
Dairy finances: 2025 and outlook for 2026
With some uncertainty having entered dairy markets in recent times, Dairy Specialist at Teagasc, Patrick Gowing reflects on the year outgoing and shares key financial tips for the year ahead.
27 October 2025
Preparing for drying off
The time is approaching when cows will start to be dried off on farms. All farmers need to plan carefully for a successful drying off of the herd.
25 October 2025
Autumn closing: Time to protect farm cover
Although the average farm cover on Irish dairy farms measuring grass through PastureBase Ireland stood at 822kg DM/ha, a wide degree of variability exists across farms.
23 October 2025
Using red clover silage during the first winter
A recent experiment was undertaken at Teagasc Moorepark to investigate the effect of offering red clover silage to replacement dairy heifers during their first winter in comparison to grass silage diets.
23 October 2025
LESS and protected urea use on Irish farms
Representative of almost 88,000 dairy, beef, sheep and tillage farms nationally, the recently published suite of National Farm Survey (NFS) enterprise factsheets shed light on the levels of protected urea and Low Emission Slurry Spreading (LESS) use on Irish farms last year.
22 October 2025
Best practice in milking courses available
Are you looking to improve your milking skills? Then the Best Practice in Milking Course may be of interest to you.
21 October 2025
Time for lime
Ground conditions and farm finances have aligned, meaning there are significant opportunities to apply lime. John Maher, Grass10 Manager, and John Leahy, dairy farmer in Athea, Co. Limerick, join Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss applying lime.
20 October 2025
Dairy costs: What sets the bottom and top performing farms apart
The recently released Teagasc National Farm Survey 2024 Dairy Enterprise Factsheet offers a useful snapshot of how Irish dairy farms performed last year. What’s interesting however is how it highlights the financial differences between the top, middle and bottom performing farms.
20 October 2025
Selective Dry Cow Therapy – excellent management is the key to success
Pablo Silva Boloña, Teagasc Research Officer, whose work focuses on milk quality, dairy cow mastitis and selective dry cow therapy, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge.
13 October 2025