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Target quality silage for sheep farms
Target quality silage for sheep farms Damian Costello, Sheep Specialist, shares key advice to ensure you produce enough high-quality silage for your ewes next winter. The inclement weather has presented many challenges to sheep farmers this spring, not least forcing a delay in fertiliser applications and the closing up of silage ground […]
30 April 2024
Official statistics reveal extent of cereal decline in 2023
Official statistics reveal extent of cereal decline in 2023 Official data released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has revealed the rate at which cereal production declined in 2023, with the production of the three main cereals – wheat, barley and oats – all back. As part of its recent Area, Yield […]
30 April 2024
Benefits of active forest management to be highlighted at Teagasc forest walks
Benefits of active forest management to be highlighted at Teagasc forest walks From May 2 to May 17, Teagasc invites all forest owners and enthusiasts to a series of fascinating forest walks focusing on proactive forest management. Previewing these events, Teagasc Forestry Development Officer, Liam Kelly explains that the importance of good […]
30 April 2024
Now is a good time to assess your cash flow
Now is a good time to assess your cash flow Hopefully the bad weather of spring 2024 is behind us and we will move into more favourable weather for the remainder of the year. Now is a good time to take stock of where the farm sits and the cash position of […]
29 April 2024
DairyBeef 500 Ambassador shares 2024 beef breeding plan
DairyBeef 500 Ambassador shares 2024 beef breeding plan On this week’s episode of the Dairy Edge, Stuart Childs is joined by David Gannon, Aurivo Joint Programme Monitor Farmer and DairyBeef 500 Ambassador, and John McCabe, Monitor Farm advisor with the Aurivo Joint Programme, to discuss the beef breeding plan for David’s farm […]
29 April 2024
Producing quality beef calves to ensure repeat custom
Producing quality beef calves to ensure repeat custom Milking 75 Friesian cows in Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick, Seán Barry is following a dairy-beef breeding programme centred on the use of high Dairy Beef Index sires, with individual bulls selected for heifers, second calvers and mature cows. Seán, who works closely with his father […]
29 April 2024
Breeding for Profitability and Labour
Breeding for Profitability and Labour Trevor Boland based in Dromard in Sligo is a part time farmer, calving 50 suckler cows from July to September. He sells the bull calves at 11-12 months of age and the heifers at 1.5 – 2 years old. Trevor discussed breeding and genetics with Chris Daly […]
29 April 2024
Looking for alternative ways to preserve processed meat products
Looking for alternative ways to preserve processed meat products Processed meats encompass a variety of products, including deli meats, bacon, sausages and other cured meats. Nitrites and nitrates (E 249-252) are typically added to these products because they help preserve the meat by preventing the growth of harmful bacteria like Clostridium botulinum, […]
29 April 2024
Using hormones to suppress ash dieback
Using hormones to suppress ash dieback Winners of the BT Young Scientist Group Project and Teagasc award, Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan students, Abigail and Erica O’Brien Murray and Olivia O’Shea join this episode of the Environment Edge to discuss how we can save the common ash. Joining hosts Cathal Somers and Deirdre […]
28 April 2024
What traits are you breeding for?
What traits are you breeding for? Striving to breed a functional, milky cow, capable of producing a heavy weanling, Wesley Browne discussed the breeding and genetics on his farm with Chris Daly, ICBF, as part of a recent Teagasc Future Beef webinar. Wesley is a full-time farmer, farming 90 spring-calving suckler cows […]
27 April 2024