Today’s Farm – May/June 2017

Farming on the edge

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Articles

Farm Management

• What’s your strategy? Q and A (pdf) – Teagasc/UCD Michael Smurfit course in business strategy

Dairy

• Living on the edge (pdf) – John Maher and Nora O’Donovan
• Teagasc Moorepark Open Day – 10 reasons to visit (pdf) – Tom O’Dwyer
• 10 Tips to manage workload (pdf) – Joe Kelleher

Silage

• Minimise your silage waste (pdf) – Tom Ryan
• Managing silage bales: knowing what you have (pdf)- Lorcan Dooley

Animal Health

• A bug’s tale: Johne’s disease in the spotlight (pdf) – Aideen Kennedy and Riona Sayers

BETTER Farms

• Taking the challenge – BETTER farm programme enters its third stage (pdf) – Alan Dillon
• Planning for profit on drystock farms (pdf) – Michael Gottstein,

Organics

• Gathering the pieces of the organic jigsaw (pdf) – Dan Clavin

Drystock

• Why a SMART plan is best (pdf) – Charlie Devaney
• Scale is no barrier to top performance (pdf) – Conor O’Reilly

Tillage

• Septoria: timing and resistance (pdf) – Marianne Mulhall
• Precision ag systems: worth the money? (pdf) – Dermot Forristal

Environment

• Working towards sustainability (pdf) – Andy Boland

Forestry

• Valuing the family forest (pdf) – Frances McHugh

Botanic Gardens

• The search for the Young Horticulturist Of the Year (pdf) – Paul Fitters