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Implementing the correct steps for dairy-beef success
0 Implementing the correct steps for dairy-beef success With dairy beef calves arriving on beef farms at the moment, purchasing from reliable suppliers and ensuring to purchase calves that are good weight for age is crucial to limiting calf mortality and morbidity. John Kilboyle, B&T Drystock Advisor, Teagasc, Galway/Clare, outlines more. The profitability […]
7 March 2023
Options for rearing surplus lambs
0 Options for rearing surplus lambs Year in, year out sheep farmers are posed with the challenge of managing surplus or ‘pet’ lambs. These lambs occur due to numerous reasons, including: multiple births (2 lambs); mismothering by the ewe; a lack of milk at lambing time; or the orphaning of lambs at birth, […]
7 March 2023
Colostrum: What to know about collection, storage and thawing
0 Colostrum: What to know about collection, storage and thawing Dr. Emer Kennedy joins Ciarán Lynch on this latest OviCast podcast to talk about some key aspects of colostrum management on farms. Emer explains the importance of colostrum in newborn ruminants and discusses the importance of hygiene during the collection process, storage of […]
7 March 2023
Do urea-based fertilisers have a role in malting barley?
0 Do urea-based fertilisers have a role in malting barley? With high fertiliser prices continuing into early 2023, Dr. Richie Hackett of Teagasc Oak Park outlined the benefits and potential drawbacks of using urea-based fertilisers when growing malting barley. Addressing the recent Teagasc National Malting Barley Conference, he explained that there are economic […]
7 March 2023
Agricultural science students have a low farm injury risk perception
0 Agricultural science students have a low farm injury risk perception A major study has found that just over half of agricultural science students think that the level of risk they face whilst doing farm work is low. The study, part of the BeSafe Project which is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food […]
7 March 2023
Na buntáistí a bhaineann le staidéar i gColáiste Talmhaíochta
0 Na buntáistí a bhaineann le staidéar i gColáiste Talmhaíochta Le Seosamh O’Deá, Múinteoir i gColáiste Chill Daltún. Ag ár lá oscailte i gColáiste Chill Daltún le déanaí, bhí mé ag caint le tuismitheoir agus chuir sí ceist an-simplí orm – conas a bhainfeadh a mac nó a hiníon leas as dul go […]
7 March 2023
How many cows do you need to breed to dairy AI?
0 How many cows do you need to breed to dairy AI? The genetic potential of an animal initially comes from the average of both sire and dam figures; therefore mating your best females to dairy AI is as important as selecting the correct bull team, James Dunne, Teagasc Dairy Specialist, explains more. […]
6 March 2023
Nitrates banding and the options available to you
0 Nitrates banding and the options available to you Patrick Gowing, Teagasc Dairy Specialist, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge podcast to talk about the options available to dairy farmers impacted by the introduction of the new nitrates banding. Patrick explains that people need to optimise their nitrogen (N) allowance on […]
6 March 2023
Watch: Achieving compact calving with Future Beef Farmer Shane Keaveney
0 Watch: Achieving compact calving with Future Beef Farmer Shane Keaveney Shane Keaveney farms full time, with help from his wife Gráinne and three children, in Ballinlough, Co. Roscommon. He took over the farm in 2014 with five Saler in-calf heifers and has since grown the suckler herd to 37. The farm is […]
6 March 2023
Update from the Clover150 Programme
0 Update from the Clover150 Programme In 2021, a group of 30 farmers from across the country enrolled in the Clover150 programme, with a range of land types, geographic spread and farming enterprises. Over the past two years, white clover was established on farms by a combination of reseeding and oversowing. The objectives […]
6 March 2023