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Exploring Farm Diversification: Rural Skills
0 Exploring Farm Diversification: Rural Skills Why not consider running courses on your farm? Barry Caslin, Energy & Rural Development Specialist, explores how running rural skills training courses can be a viable and rewarding diversification option for farmers. As a farmer, many of the niche skills you use on a daily basis are […]
7 June 2025
Listen: Grazing update with Tim Walsh in Co. Kerry
0 Listen: Grazing update with Tim Walsh in Co. Kerry On this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses current grazing advice as some farms are coming into surplus grass, and he has a grazing update from Tim Walsh in Co. Kerry. This week’s Grass10 newsletter For more episodes from the Dairy […]
7 June 2025
Pasture-based systems for early-maturing dairy-beef heifers
0 Pasture-based systems for early-maturing dairy-beef heifers Spring-born, early-maturing (Angus and Hereford) dairy-beef heifers can form high-output, low-input systems when finished during the second grazing season at 19 -21 months of age. Despite the lower carcass weight potential of heifers compared to steers, pasture-based dairy-beef heifer systems have the potential for a high […]
7 June 2025
‘Undies the surface’
0 ‘Undies the surface’ Unlike your typical cereal or legume crop, Signpost Tillage farmer, Darren Allen has ‘planted’ a novel ‘crop’ that he hopes will provide useful insights into the soil health on Ballymaloe Farm, Ballymaloe, Shanagarry, Co. Cork. The other day, along with my Teagasc Advisor and in preparation for a joint […]
6 June 2025
The role of native riparian forests in protecting upland rivers
0 The role of native riparian forests in protecting upland rivers Ireland’s mountains and uplands are renowned for their spectacular beauty. Upland rivers and streams together with adjoining areas of native trees and forests are iconic features of the wild landscape. Noel Kennedy discusses the protective role of native riparian forests to conserve […]
6 June 2025
Get snapping – ‘This is Dairying’ Photo Competition launched
0 Get snapping – ‘This is Dairying’ Photo Competition launched Teagasc, with the support of FBD Insurance, is delighted to launch the ‘This is Dairying’ photo competition in the lead-up to the Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day which is taking place in early July. Running throughout the month of June, this year’s competition […]
6 June 2025
Identifying critical tillage grass weeds
0 Identifying critical tillage grass weeds Some growers have spotted blackgrass for the first time on their farms in recent weeks and have sought help to confirm its identification. Correct identification is crucial, says Vijaya Bhaskar, Research Officer. We have received reports of an increasing presence of blackgrass, Italian ryegrass, and bromes in […]
6 June 2025
Cleaning liquid feed mix tanks
0 Cleaning liquid feed mix tanks Ciaran Carroll of the Teagasc Pig Development Department takes us through the process of cleaning liquid feed mix tanks, an important task on pig farms given the quantity of feed used. In 2023, the Teagasc Profit Monitor reported an average output of 2.491 tonnes of pig meat […]
6 June 2025
Inter cropping challenges
0 Inter cropping challenges A push for home-grown protein, an influx of livestock farmers having converted or converting to organic production and the availability of Protein Aid scheme has made inter crops – a combination of cereals and legumes – an attractive prospect for many organic tillage farms. Despite the positives, challenges do […]
6 June 2025
Listen: US farmers are behind on plantings
0 Listen: US farmers are behind on plantings The grain harvest in the United States has a significant impact on global markets, and directly influences harvest prices in Ireland. On this week’s Tillage Edge, Brian Caldbeck, an Irishman running a seed business in Kentucky, returns to the show to discuss how US farmers […]
5 June 2025