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The importance of colostrum to suckler calves
The importance of colostrum to suckler calves As a means to protect the early-life health of calves, suckler farmers have been encouraged to prioritise the feeding of colostrum to their calves this spring. This message came from John Donlon, a Teagasc vet working in the area of beef herd health, who joined […]
20 February 2024
Scanning, condition score and preparing for lambing on the BETTER farms
Scanning, condition score and preparing for lambing on the BETTER farms For this week’s OviCast, host Ciaran Lynch is joined by Dr Frank Campion to get an update on the BETTER farm sheep flocks. They discuss this year’s scanning results, dealing with issues and benchmarking performance. Additionally, ewe condition score on the […]
20 February 2024
Controlling liver fluke – test don’t guess
Controlling liver fluke – test don’t guess The highly pathogenic nature of liver fluke, along with its complicated life-cycle and its ability to thrive in warm and wet summers, makes liver fluke a threat to sheep and cattle of all ages. That was a key message delivered by Dr Philip Skuce, Principal […]
20 February 2024
Hazell Mullins on how to achieve high herd health status
Hazell Mullins on how to achieve high herd health status ‘Vet on the Moove’ Hazell Mullins joins Emma-Louise Coffey on this week’s Dairy Edge podcast to discuss the priorities to achieve high herd health status and gives her tips to limit disease outbreaks this spring. Hazell identifies use of farm data, diagnostic […]
19 February 2024
Protected urea – protecting the environment and delivering for farmers
Protected urea – protecting the environment and delivering for farmers Áine Murray, Donal Patton, Philip Creighton and Brian McCarthy tell us how switching to protected urea reduces greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions, with plot experiments showing no significant difference in grass production between protected urea and conventional fertilizers. Although nitrogen (N) fertilisers […]
19 February 2024
Over 4,900 hill rams genotyped
Over 4,900 hill rams genotyped Seen as a key technology to improve the productivity and viability of the hill sheep sector, the rate of genotyping of rams from Irish hill flocks has increased significantly. Illustrating how hill sheep farmers have moved to adopt this technology, David Coen of Sheep Ireland told the […]
19 February 2024
Managing pregnant ewe lambs
Managing pregnant ewe lambs Many producers are lambing replacements at one year of age. These ewe lambs need to gain weight during pregnancy to enable them to progress in a timely manner towards mature body size. As a result, relative to a mature ewe of similar weight, a ewe lamb requires an […]
19 February 2024
Part 2: Dublin City farming in the 1950s
Part 2: Dublin City farming in the 1950s A thriving agricultural industry was going on in Dublin city in the 1950s, from pigs and horses to cows. In the second of a two-part series on the Environment Edge podcast, Mary Kennedy and Mick Denver chat to us about the pirates of Mud […]
19 February 2024
Putting a stamp on the family’s dairy with milk vending
Putting a stamp on the family’s dairy with milk vending Having milked cows in Donegal since the early 1990s, the Porter family have not only grown their dairy farming business from 30 to 450 cows, but they’ve added an element of diversification through the commissioning of a milk vending machine. This diversification […]
18 February 2024
Watch: Signpost Series – Community led action for wetlands
Watch: Signpost Series – Community led action for wetlands On this episode of The Signpost Series, host Pat Murphy, Head of Environment Knowledge Transfer, Teagasc was joined by Dr. Mícheál Callaghan, Community Wetlands Forum to discuss community led action for wetlands: Lessons from the Community Wetlands Forum. A questions and answers session […]
18 February 2024