Articles
The key points for sourcing, rearing and weaning calves
The key points for sourcing, rearing and weaning calves With calving kicking off on many dairy farms, Teagasc DairyBeef 500 Advisor, Tommy Cox features on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the key areas you need to focus on when sourcing, rearing and weaning calves. There are over 2,500 calves reared […]
10 January 2024
10 tips for trouble-free calving
10 tips for trouble-free calving For most herds, peak calving season is just around the corner and about 50% of dairy cows will calve between now and the end of February, write Joe Patton, Head of Dairy Knowledge Transfer at Teagasc. That brings great advantages later in the season in terms of […]
10 January 2024
Risk to colostrum quality from poor-quality nutrition pre calving
Risk to colostrum quality from poor-quality nutrition pre calving With the spring-calving period fast approaching, dairy farmers have been warned of the risk poor quality nutrition in the period immediately prior to calving can pose to colostrum quality. Providing calves with adequate volumes of high-quality colostrum – the cow’s first milk – […]
10 January 2024
Protecting Farmland Pollinators
Protecting Farmland Pollinators Saorla Kavanagh’s paper in the Journal of Pollination Ecology explores the success of the Protecting Farmland Pollinators Scorecard Project, revealing how close collaboration with farmers and the implementation of a whole farm pollinator scoring system can effectively restore biodiversity. Research Officer Saorla Kavanagh recently published a paper in the […]
10 January 2024
New appointment to Teagasc Authority
New appointment to Teagasc Authority The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D. has appointed Dr Helen Sheridan to the Teagasc Authority. Dr Helen Sheridan is an Associate Professor in the School of Agriculture and Food Science at University College Dublin. While now living in Dublin, Helen is from […]
10 January 2024
Newford Farm: A Year in Review
0 Newford Farm: A Year in Review December was a relatively quiet month on Newford Farm spent getting used to our new surroundings in Athleague. Stephen Frend tells us more about the past year at Newford, and plans for the future. The cows received their annual IBR booster and were treated for lice. […]
9 January 2024
Increase profitability of March-lambing flocks by shearing at housing
0 Increase profitability of March-lambing flocks by shearing at housing Dr. Tim Keady advises that shearing March-lambing ewes at housing in December improves subsequent animal performance by increasing lamb birth weight, enhances lamb weaning weight, reduces lamb age at slaughter by approximately two weeks, and offers additional benefits. Many producers house their March […]
9 January 2024
Scanning – making use of the information
0 Scanning – making use of the information With scanning complete on many flocks, Michael Gottstein, Head of Sheep Knowledge Transfer Programme, joins OviCast host Ciaran Lynch to speak about making use of this valuable information. The discussion starts on this year’s scanning results, before moving on to the immediate management changes that […]
9 January 2024
New Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards launched
0 New Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards launched New Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards were launched today, Tuesday, January 9 by Teagasc, with generous support from FBD. The aims of the Teagasc/FBD Environmental Sustainability Awards are to promote environmentally sustainable farming and highlight the progress that farmers are making to reduce their impact on the […]
9 January 2024
Why Cash is still King
0 Why Cash is still King Cash is the lifeblood of every farm business and cashflow management is critical to success, writes Trevor Dunwoody Teagasc Farm Management Specialist. Put simply, cash flow is the measure of the movement of money in and out of your farm business. Years with lower product prices, higher […]
9 January 2024