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Focus turns to sourcing on Dairybeef 500 farms
Focus turns to sourcing on Dairybeef 500 farms With Christmas having come and gone and with the New Year upon the start of the spring calf rearing cycle is just around the Dairybeef 500 participants. Buying the right calf at an appropriate price, optimising nutrition and health, along with limiting disease pressure, […]
11 January 2023
How to incorporate red clover into your beef system
How to incorporate red clover into your beef system Roscommon DairyBeef 500 farmer Martin Connolly is on this week’s episode of the Beef Edge podcast to discuss how he incorporated red clover last year into his beef system, the pros, cons, tips and advice he has for anyone considering red clover this […]
11 January 2023
Teagasc Tillage Conference to focus on future challenges
Teagasc Tillage Conference to focus on future challenges This year’s Teagasc National Tillage Conference is set against the background of 2022 being one of the better seasons in recent memory, with excellent harvest conditions and historically high grain prices making 2022 a profitable season for tillage farmers in spite of elevated costs. […]
11 January 2023
Environmental benefits of key ACRES measures
Environmental benefits of key ACRES measures Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) is Ireland’s new agri-environment scheme under Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan and administered by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine. Its objective is to help address biodiversity decline while delivering an income support for up to 50,000 farm families in […]
10 January 2023
Managing ewe lamb replacements – does it influence their performance as ewes?
Managing ewe lamb replacements – does it influence their performance as ewes? Dr Tim Keady joins Ciarán Lynch on this week’s OviCast podcast to discuss managing ewe lamb replacements and the influence that has on their subsequent productivity. Tim first outlines the various sources of replacements in the national flocks. With the […]
10 January 2023
Making Best Use of Soil Analysis Results
Making Best Use of Soil Analysis Results John O’Connell farms in Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, alongside his wife Amanda and their three children. The O’Connell’s operate a mid-season lambing flock alongside a dairy heifer contract rearing enterprise. A key part of John’s farm plan and his plan to increase the sustainability of his […]
10 January 2023
Reducing Nitrogen Loss from Tillage Ground – Catch Crop Update from the Agricultural Catchments Programme
Reducing Nitrogen Loss from Tillage Ground – Catch Crop Update from the Agricultural Catchments Programme All farming sectors have to reduce nitrogen (N) loss, in order to restore all water bodies to a good status by 2027. On free draining, nitrate leaching prone sites, research has shown that overwinter green cover can […]
10 January 2023
A Preview of the IGA Dairy Conference
0 A Preview of the IGA Dairy Conference Vincent Griffith, Farm Profitability Specialist with Aurivo Co-Op and chair of the IGA Dairy Conference Committee, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge podcast to preview the IGA Dairy Conference taking place in Charleville on Wednesday 18th January. Vincent outlines the three sessions on […]
9 January 2023
Teagasc at the 2023 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition
0 Teagasc at the 2023 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition We invite you to visit the Teagasc stand at the 2023 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE). We will have a range of hands-on displays throughout the exhibition covering a range of science topics: soils, food safety, ash dieback disease, fermented […]
9 January 2023
Calling all outdoor pig producers!
0 Calling all outdoor pig producers! Consideration of the welfare of animals, the environment, and humans, and how they are interconnected, is something that is increasingly important to the public when it comes to animal agriculture, and is likely to progressively affect how animal products are produced and marketed. In response to this, […]
9 January 2023