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WelFarmers: Collecting Good Practices to Improve Pig Welfare
WelFarmers: Collecting Good Practices to Improve Pig Welfare Neil Tirchett brings tells us about WelFarmers, a Europe-wide effort to boost pig welfare through real farm practices, shared insights, and smart solutions. The WelFarmers project is now in its second year. Its main goal is to collect and share good practices from pig […]
18 April 2025
Tillage advice: PGRs, fungicides and weed control
Tillage advice: PGRs, fungicides and weed control With most winter barley crops now at the flag leaf stage, Crops Specialist at Teagasc, Shay Phelan shares advice on plant growth regulator (PGR) and fungicide applications, along with outlining some of the key agronomic tasks for winter wheat, spring cereal, and bean and pea […]
17 April 2025
Tillage Edge: How will the US tariffs impact Irish tillage farmers?
Tillage Edge: How will the US tariffs impact Irish tillage farmers? The on-again, off-again tariffs being proposed by the US may have significant implications for Irish tillage farmers in the months and years ahead. For this episode of the Tillage Edge, Michael Hennessy is joined by Professor Michael Wallace, Economist of Agriculture and […]
17 April 2025
Unlocking the full potential of grassland
Unlocking the full potential of grassland As part of our Teagasc Thought Leaders series, Catriona Boyle spoke with Michael O’Donovan, Head of the Grassland Science Department in Teagasc, recently about getting the most out of our grasslands. Professor Michael O’Donovan is Head of the Grassland Science Department in Teagasc, based at the […]
17 April 2025
Biodiversity: Allow space for nature in your field margins
Biodiversity: Allow space for nature in your field margins Field margins comprise rough grassland on the edge of fields of intensively managed farmland. Their linear nature provides corridors of movement and networks for nature through the countryside, as well as being habitats of high biodiversity value. Their structural diversity, as well as […]
17 April 2025
Ger McSweeney’s desirables in his next generation of cows
Ger McSweeney’s desirables in his next generation of cows Breeding for the 2026 calving season has commenced on Ger McSweeney’s Future Beef farm in Millstreet, Co. Cork. With 100% AI used, Ger focuses on a number of desirable traits when breeding the next generation of cows for his herd. Milk, but not […]
16 April 2025
Preparing for breeding with Teagasc/Tirlán Future Farmer, Tom Murphy
Preparing for breeding with Teagasc/Tirlán Future Farmer, Tom Murphy With the calving season all but wrapped up and breeding fast approaching, Co-ordinator of the Teagasc/Tirlán Future Farm Programme, Sandra Hayes visits Tom Murphy in Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, and provides an update on grassland management from the other participating farms. 93% of the […]
16 April 2025
Listen: Sophie Tyner’s plans for the coming weeks and making good quality silage
Listen: Sophie Tyner’s plans for the coming weeks and making good quality silage Wicklow Beef farmer, Sophie Tyner is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss her beef system, her plans in the coming weeks for closing for silage, and how good quality silage is so important on her farm. Given […]
16 April 2025
Post-storm marketing centres at Talking Timber
Post-storm marketing centres at Talking Timber As a result of Storm Éowyn’s devastating impact, Teagasc’s flagship timber marketing event ‘Talking Timber’ switched focus to the marketing of post-storm conifer timber. Organised by Teagasc in association with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), along with Forest Industries Ireland, the event […]
16 April 2025
Are your replacement heifers on track for breeding?
Are your replacement heifers on track for breeding? Successfully breeding next year’s replacement heifers to calve down at two years of age starts with identifying heifer calves born on the farm this spring, Teagasc Beef Specialist, David Argue shares his key tips on heifer selection. Select heifers born early in the calving […]
16 April 2025