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TAMS 3 eligible items, reference costs and grant rates revealed
TAMS 3 eligible items, reference costs and grant rates revealed The Targeted Agriculture Modernisation Scheme (TAMS 3) will provide grant aid to farmers to build and/or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holding. Details of the new €370m five year scheme, including eligible items, grant aid levels […]
20 February 2023
Watch: Updating buildings for organic conversion in Co. Clare
Watch: Updating buildings for organic conversion in Co. Clare Father and daughter partnership, Tadhg and Claire Halpin farm 70ha of free-draining land in Tulla, east Clare. In November 2022, they submitted an application to join the Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) – one of the over 2,000 applicants to do so. The Halpins […]
19 February 2023
Planning for lambing season
Planning for lambing season Damian Costello, Teagasc Sheep Specialist, reminds us to start planning for lambing season. The key focus in the run-up to lambing should be having a plan in place to minimise the level of lamb mortality within your flock. Along with the obvious benefit of ending up with more […]
19 February 2023
Practical implications of conversion to organics on hill sheep farms
Practical implications of conversion to organics on hill sheep farms The appropriate system of sheep production on hill farms is farm specific. It depends on factors such as the quality and amount of enclosed green land available along with the harshness of the hill grazing environment on the farm. Damian Costello, Teagasc […]
18 February 2023
New Forestry Programme 2023-2027
New Forestry Programme 2023-2027 The new Forestry Programme 2023-2027 will come into force in early 2023, subject to state aid approval from the European Commission. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is currently considering and integrating feedback from stakeholders and the public further to the public consultation that was […]
18 February 2023
Unearthing the educational options in the land based sector
Unearthing the educational options in the land based sector Over the coming days and weeks, Teagasc will host a number of events to share the educational opportunities that exist within the land-based sector. The first event, a webinar, will take place on Tuesday, February 21st at 11.15am, where the diverse career opportunities […]
18 February 2023
Converting beef housing to meet organic standards
Converting beef housing to meet organic standards On this episode of Let’s Talk Organics, Elaine Leavy, Joe Kelleher and Martin Bourke, Teagasc Organic Specialists, discussed converting beef housing to meet organic standards. The team were joined by Fergus Hanly, Co. Limerick, and Tadhg Halpin, Co. Clare, who shared their experiences of converting […]
17 February 2023
Multi-species swards for beef production
Multi-species swards for beef production Edward O’Riordan, Sarah Burke, Paul Crossan and Mark McGee of Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Grange report on the results of multi-species sward research. In livestock grazing systems perennial ryegrass has predominated as the sown species of choice. With increased fertiliser N costs and […]
17 February 2023
New technologies and animal performance to the fore in west Cork
New technologies and animal performance to the fore in west Cork James O’Sullivan farms 31ha near the villages of Leap and Union Hall in scenic west Cork. Some of his land drops steeply to the sea and faces directly due south. “My wife Rachel and I run a dairy-beef enterprise with the […]
17 February 2023
Native woodland and water quality
Native woodland and water quality Ireland’s native woodlands have evolved with our watercourses since before the ice age. Róisín McManus and Michael Somers, Teagasc Nenagh, discuss how the re-emergence of these native woodlands will benefit water quality. Our townlands illustrate this close relationship between native woodlands and watercourses, whereby 14,000 out of […]
17 February 2023