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Crops Update – Winter Cereal Growers choose your cereal variety carefully
Crops Update – Winter Cereal Growers choose your cereal variety carefully Variety selection is a very important decision for winter cereal growers. Selection should not be based on top line yield figures alone. Having an awareness of varietal agronomic traits is vitally important. Crops Specialist Ciaran Collins has some advice Remember Agronomic […]
28 September 2023
Getting the best from cover crops and organic manures on Don Somers’ farm
Getting the best from cover crops and organic manures on Don Somers’ farm In the second of a three part series from a Signpost farm walk on Don Somers’ farm in Wexford, Michael Hennessy chats to Martin Bourke, a Teagasc Advisor, about getting the best from organic manures and how Don Somers […]
28 September 2023
Liming Programme 2023
Liming Programme 2023 Anne O’ Malley, Teagasc Advisory Ballina tells us, farmers participating in the lime programme have received an approval letter and eligible applicants can claim for the purchase and spread of up to 40 tonne of ground limestone. The claims system is open online at www.agfood.ie and invoices can be uploaded for […]
28 September 2023
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