Dairy
Dairy Breeding Week 2026
The breeding season on Irish dairy farms has become increasingly concentrated in the late April to June period. Dairy Breeding Week, takes place from Monday, 30th March to Friday, 3rd April, and aims to provide timely information and reminders for farmers on important genetic and technical issues underpinning a successful dairy breeding season.
30 March 2026
Calculate the number of females that you need to breed to Dairy AI
As always when breeding your replacement heifer calves there should be particular focus placed on breeding the maiden heifers to dairy AI as these should be your highest genetic merit animals. James Dunne tells us more.
30 March 2026
Why good people working on dairy farms are value for money
Wages often represent a significant cost on dairy farms and can appear to be an obvious area to target. However, as explained by Martina Gormley, Dairy Specialist, good people working on dairy farms can represent value for money.
30 March 2026
ICBF Sire Advice – an essential tool for all dairy farmers
To get maximum genetic gain, minimise calving difficulty risk using dairy beef sires, whilst delivering high Commercial Beef Value (CBV) progeny, dairy farmers should run ICBF Sire Advice every breeding season, Teagasc Dairy Specialist, Stuart Childs and Dan O’Riordan, ICBF, tell us more.
30 March 2026
Dairygold awards bursaries to University College Cork Agricultural Science students
Dairygold Co-Operative Society has awarded two undergraduate bursaries to students undertaking the Bachelor of Agricultural Science degree at University College Cork.
25 March 2026
Best practice in milking courses available
Specialised training courses aimed at improving milking standards and dairy herd management will take place in the coming weeks in Cavan and Tipperary.
25 March 2026
Clover 2026: the move is on
Teagasc is hosting a webinar on white clover on Wednesday, 25 March called ‘Clover: the move is on’. The webinar will highlight the key benefits and new innovations of white clover in grass-based production systems.
24 March 2026
Dairy Edge Podcast – ICBF Breeding Guidelines
Kevin Downing and Dan O’Riordan of ICBF join Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss the Spring Breeding Guidelines that will be arriving to farmers across the country this week.
23 March 2026
VistaMilk and Dairymaster deepen collaboration to advance precision milking research
VistaMilk Research Ireland Centre has announced a major new multi-year research programme focused on optimising milking technology to the individual cow. The project builds on a long-standing and productive industry collaboration with Dairymaster that has been in place since Phase I of VistaMilk.
23 March 2026
Cattle slurry a valuable source of N, P & K
Getting the most from cattle slurry will help ease the impacts of high chemical fertiliser prices in 2026, Mark Plunkett, Teagasc Signpost Programme, tells us how.
23 March 2026