Articles
Dairy Edge: Grazing management and autumn grassland management
John Maher, Teagasc Grass10 Programme Manager, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s episode of the Dairy Edge podcast to discuss the current PastureBase figures and he explains the idea of autumn build-up and autumn grazing management.
11 August 2025
The Future Beef guide to weaning
Weaning is a stressful time for suckler calves and inappropriate actions can reduce performance and leave your weanlings lighter.
11 August 2025
Think before you till
A new study reveals the conditions under which Irish tillage growers adopt innovations.
11 August 2025
Dairy advice: Spending wisely in 2025
Teagasc Dairy Specialist, Stuart Childs outlines three ways to spend the additional income earned on dairy farms in 2025 wisely, allowing for the insulation of farm businesses for the years ahead.
11 August 2025
Dairy Edge: Dairy farmers on the year so far
On this episode of the Dairy Edge podcast, Stuart Childs and James Dunne used the opportunity of the hugely successful Moorepark Open Day to speak to some of those in attendance.
10 August 2025
Adoption of MACC measures needed for substantial reductions in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The Climate Change Advisory Council has highlighted the need to ‘urgently accelerate the roll-out of proven on-farm measures to reduce emissions’ in its 2025 Annual Review of Agriculture and Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry.
10 August 2025
Autumn calving underway with the McCarthys
From autumn calving, grassland management, fodder budgeting and bull performance, Eamon McCarthy fills us in on the latest happenings from their Future Beef and Signpost Programme Demonstration farm in Co. Waterford.
10 August 2025
White and red clover – from sowing to establishment
James Mimnagh, Teagasc Signpost Advisor, recently visited Enda Farrell’s Signpost dairy farm in Carrickedmond, Co. Longford to see how recently established crops of white and red clover are performing.
9 August 2025
Harvest and cropping plans with Signpost farmer Don Somers
Don Somers, Signpost Tillage Farmer, talks us through the progress he’s made with harvest 2025 and looks ahead to his cropping plan for 2026.
9 August 2025
Have a listening ear when herding your cattle
John Kelly, Drystock Advisor, Teagasc Roscommon, tells us to listen carefully for signs of lungworm to protect your cattle’s health.
9 August 2025