Beef Newsletter – November/December 2025

By Beef Specialist team

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In this edition:

• Teagasc National Beef Conference
  The Teagasc National Beef Conference will take place on Tuesday, November 18 in the Raheen Woods Hotel, Athenry, under the theme ‘Beef Farming 2025: Value, Profit and Renewal’. This year’s conference will focus on practical and forward-looking topics for every beef farmer – from breeding and feeding high-value weanlings to preparing for the next phase of beef farming in Ireland. Find out more here
• Balancing the winter diet
  During winter feeding, it’s important to tailor your cattle’s diet depending on whether they’re growing, finishing, or maintaining bodyweight. Grass silage is often supplemented with concentrates to ensure cattle meet their daily weight targets. Testing your silage for nutrient content is essential.
• Research Update – Organic beef finishing diets
  Marie McFadden, Mark McGee and Paul Crosson from Teagasc Grange, Co. Meath report on the results of experimental finishing diets for suckler steers. The intake, growth, feed efficiency, and carcass traits of late-maturing suckler steers, each offered one of four experimental diets over a 98-day finishing period were examined.
• Health & Safety – Stay safe when working at height
  Over the last 10 years, there have been 37 fatalities as a result of falling from height. The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) lists common hazards as falls from ladders, unprotected roof edges, falling from or with stacked bales, and falling through fragile roof materials. Take time to assess the task properly, and use competent contractors, safe equipment and safe systems of work.