Articles
Reducing stress on your farm in 2025
Reducing stress on your farm in 2025 Planning your workload is key to reduce stress and make life easier during busy periods on your farm. Marion Fox, B&T Drystock Advisor, Teagasc Galway/Clare, shares five areas farmers should focus on to help reduce stress over 2025. The farmer is a very important person […]
22 March 2025
March Grass, Opportunities and Challenges
March Grass, Opportunities and Challenges Michael Donoghue, Dairy Adviser, shares key insights on making the most of Irish farmer’s greatest advantage in livestock production, grazed grass. A solid spring grazing plan ensures better performance, reduced costs, and strong regrowth. It costs 3 to 4 times less than either silage or meal, stock […]
22 March 2025
Adhering to buffer zones
Adhering to buffer zones When farmers are applying fertilisers and pesticides, they need to be aware that they are required to utilise riparian buffer zones to minimise any potential losses to water, Teagasc Soils and Environment Advisor in Castlerea, Kieran Kenny reminds us of the key buffers. A riparian buffer zone is […]
22 March 2025
Why LESS gives more
Why LESS gives more Low emissions slurry spreading (LESS) is a precision technology that reduces nitrogen losses to the air and allows for greater nitrogen use efficiency, Eamonn Dempsey, Advisor in Teagasc Tralee, tells us more. Low emissions slurry spreading is precision technology which reduces nitrogen losses in the form of ammonia […]
21 March 2025
Research update: National beef cattle performance
Research update: National beef cattle performance Paul Smith, Mark McGee, Bernadette Earley, Edward O’Riordan, Paul Crosson and David Kenny of Teagasc Grange, and Alan Kelly, UCD, report on national beef cattle performance in 2024. In 2024, 1.26 million prime beef cattle – steers, heifers and young bulls – were finished with an […]
21 March 2025
Every lamb saved is an extra lamb that is available for sale
Every lamb saved is an extra lamb that is available for sale Infections and starvation/exposure are the biggest factors causing lamb mortality on Irish sheep farms. The following tips should be considered on all farms to help to reduce lamb mortality: Clean out and disinfect lambing pens between ewes; Dip navels of […]
21 March 2025
Launch of the new NeighbourWood Scheme
Launch of the new NeighbourWood Scheme The new NeighbourWood Scheme, launched by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, offers funding to enhance local woodlands for public recreation. Tom Houlihan highlights its role in boosting biodiversity and recreational use. The new NeighbourWood Scheme, was recently launched by the Department of Agriculture […]
21 March 2025
Eating more – it’s easier said than done!
Eating more – it’s easier said than done! Michael Mc Keon highlights the importance of maximising sow feed intake. It boosts milk yield, weaning weights, and fertility. But how do we make it happen? We all agree that good feed intake is crucial. But how do we achieve it? Pig producers often […]
21 March 2025
The happenings on Gareth Peoples’ DairyBeef 500 farm in Co. Donegal
The happenings on Gareth Peoples’ DairyBeef 500 farm in Co. Donegal Gareth Peoples, a participant in Teagasc’s DairyBeef 500 and Signpost Programmes, fills us in on the latest happenings from his farm in Co. Donegal. Cattle performance Currently, on the farm, we have finished 55 steers since last October, with another 23 […]
20 March 2025
The multiple benefits of a horticultural apprenticeship
The multiple benefits of a horticultural apprenticeship John Mulhern, Teagasc College Principal at the National Botanic Gardens, speaks to Aisling O’Connell and Martin Tully, Tully Nurseries, on the benefits of Aisling’s undertaking of the horticultural apprenticeship programme. “I was initially drawn to the apprenticeship programme because it was a way to learn, […]
20 March 2025