Articles
Winter Feed 2024: What’s your Plan?
Winter Feed 2024: What’s your Plan? Paul Mullins, Education Officer, Teagasc Galway/Clare discusses strategies for managing potential winter feed shortages on farms in 2024 due to reduced grass growth and silage production. Grass growth in 2024 is down by around 2 tonnes per acre. This is due to lower-than-normal sunshine levels during […]
12 October 2024
How can farmers reduce their overall labour demand?
How can farmers reduce their overall labour demand? Teagasc Dairy Specialist, Martina Gormley joins this episode of the Environment Edge podcast to discuss hours worked per cow and how farmers can reduce their overall labour demand. Joining podcast hosts Deirdre Glynn and Cathal Somers, Martina outlines a number of measures farmers can […]
11 October 2024
Bio Circularity in Action: Exploring Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems – A Platform for Global Insights and Local Innovation
Bio Circularity in Action: Exploring Innovation in Sustainable Food Systems – A Platform for Global Insights and Local Innovation Teagasc hosted the Bio Circularity Summit at the Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown on 10 October 2024. This landmark event brought together global experts, industry leaders, and innovators to discuss the future of […]
11 October 2024
Let’s Talk Trees
Let’s Talk Trees An informative series of town hall meetings, focusing on forestry creation options, will commence next week. Teagasc Forestry Development Officer Liam Kelly tells us more. Teagasc and the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM), Forestry Section, are hosting a series of four forestry information events from October […]
11 October 2024
Reducing stress at Weaning
Reducing stress at Weaning Gerard McCutcheon discusses the challenges and management strategies involved in weaning piglets, emphasizing the benefits of older weaning, reducing stress, and potential future developments to improve piglet growth and well-being. Pigs at weaning have great potential for growth; however, they are very vulnerable at this time and some […]
11 October 2024
Give your stock a clean start before winter housing
Give your stock a clean start before winter housing Eliminating parasites at housing will ensure optimum livestock performance over the winter. Niall Kerins, Teagasc Beef Specialist, discusses parasite treatment strategies for livestock during the winter housing period, focusing on the importance of proper product use and diagnostics. Longer nights and shorter days. […]
10 October 2024
Mating underway for 2025 season
Mating underway for 2025 season Fiona Mcgovern, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Teagasc Athenry, Co. Galway reports on mating on the INZAC and breeding flocks at Athenry. Grass growing conditions have remained steady since my last update. Average growth over the past few weeks has been 55kg DM/day, with 26 […]
10 October 2024
Listen: The Department of Agriculture Fertiliser Register – the actions you need to take
Listen: The Department of Agriculture Fertiliser Register – the actions you need to take The Department of Agriculture now has a full view of all nutrients imported onto tillage farms and this week on the Tillage Edge, Pat Murphy, Head of Environmental Knowledge Transfer in Teagasc, goes through what this means for […]
10 October 2024
Update on Beans
Update on Beans Ciaran Collins, Teagasc Tillage Specialist, gives us an update on beans, and says a decent dry spell is needed to harvest the remainder of this years bean crop. Harvesting spring beans this year is proving to be very challenging. While it is hard to determine an exact figure, estimates […]
10 October 2024
The key things to consider if you’re interested in renting a shed
0 The key things to consider if you’re interested in renting a shed Niall Kerins, Teagasc Cattle specialist, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss winter cattle housing arrangements. Every winter a significant number of cattle are housed and fed in rented sheds. Whether you are the farmer renting out the shed […]
9 October 2024