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How Proinnsias Creedon maximises his farm performance over winter
How Proinnsias Creedon maximises his farm performance over winter Proinnsias Creedon, Future Beef farmer, joins host Catherine Egan on this week’s episode of The Beef Edge podcast to give an insight into his beef system and how he maximises performance over the winter. Proinnsias farms with his wife Máire and sons Ciarán, […]
27 September 2023
Getting ready for housing on DairyBeef 500 farms
Getting ready for housing on DairyBeef 500 farms With daylight hours declining and heavy rainfall over recent weeks, the housing of stock is under way or just around the corner on many farms throughout the country. Tommy Cox, DairyBeef 500 Advisor, reports that this is also the case among DairyBeef 500 participants. […]
27 September 2023
Why now is the ideal time to plant a farm forest
Why now is the ideal time to plant a farm forest The new €308m Afforestation Scheme is offering farmers grants of up to €8,555/ha for farm forests. Noel Kennedy Teagasc Forestry Development Officer tells us more. The 2023-2027 Afforestation Scheme presents farmers with fantastic incentives to consider planting forestry and further drive […]
27 September 2023
Key advice when purchasing store lambs
Key advice when purchasing store lambs Michael Gottstein, Teagasc Head of Sheep Knowledge Transfer, re-joins Ciaran Lynch for the second part of the episode on store lambs, with a focus on those purchasing lambs. Michael highlights the importance of getting health treatments in place on arrival and what impact this has. They […]
26 September 2023
New app aims to simplify sheep movements
New app aims to simplify sheep movements The development of a new digital app named ‘AIM Services’ means sheep farmers can now notify their farm-to-farm movements from their phone. Launched by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, use of the app – which is optional – means that flock keepers […]
26 September 2023
Mating management – the success or failure of next year’s lamb crop
Mating management – the success or failure of next year’s lamb crop The annual mating cycle sows the lamb crop for the following year. The success or failure of next year’s lamb crop hinges on steps that have been taken over the past few weeks and steps that will be taken over […]
26 September 2023
Multi-species grassland swards enhance soil biology
Multi-species grassland swards enhance soil biology New research from the Teagasc Environment Research Centre, Johnstown Castle shows that higher plant diversity of intensively managed multi-species swards enhances belowground soil biodiversity and health. The study, which has been published in the international scientific journal, ‘European Journal of Soil Biology’, showed that as grasslands […]
26 September 2023
Key requirements for calf sheds on dairy farms
Key requirements for calf sheds on dairy farms Although the start of the spring-calving season is months away, farmers have an opportunity now to make adaptions to their calf sheds that will benefit calf health and performance next spring. Tom Fallon, Farm Buildings and Infrastructure Specialist, tells us the five key requirements […]
25 September 2023
The options available to farmers impacted by the nitrates derogation reduction
The options available to farmers impacted by the nitrates derogation reduction With the recent announcement to the changes in the upper derogation limit from 250 to 220kg of organic nitrogen per hectare, this week’s Dairy Edge podcast focuses on the options available to farmers impacted. Eddie Burgess, Catchment Specialist from the Agricultural […]
25 September 2023
Beef AI usage on dairy herds up 22%
Beef AI usage on dairy herds up 22% More beef AI has been used on dairy herds over the first six months of 2023, recently published figures from the ICBF have shown. Presenting an analysis of insemination data collected from AI technicians linked to the ICBF database through their AI handheld system, […]
25 September 2023