Tillage
Forage focus: Feeding home-grown crops on rented land in Co. Galway
Eamonn Burke is a farmer with a difference; he has no land of his own. The Co. Galway man farms...
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Beef
Forage focus: '20 phone calls and still no silage'
The first thing that strikes you when you walk into Thomas O’Connor’s yard is that you could eat your dinner...
Dairy
Forage focus: Precision feeding of dairy cows at Lyons Research Farm
The autumn-calving dairy herd on UCD’s Lyons Research Farm is currently being fed a mix of maize and grass silage;...
Beef
Forage focus: Beet, barley and silage on a self-sufficient beef farm
Niall Nicholson farms in partnership with his father Billy just outside Crosshaven, Co. Cork. The first thing that strikes you...
Beef
Forage focus: Would you feed your cattle bread and cake?
Everyday, in bakeries and mills, bread, cakes and cereals are left on the shelves. However, Sean Tully Animal Feeds takes...
Tillage
Forage focus: Producing 20,000 bales of haylage in Co. Tipperary
The concept behind Hayden’s Haylage seems like a relatively simple idea – you make small bales of haylage and you...
Tillage
Forage focus: 'Straw Chip' a thriving business on a tillage farm
The Owens brothers are part of a family which has been trading straw for three generations from their farm outside...
Sheep
Forage focus: Getting a head start with 'Redstart'
Forage crops have been grown for a number of seasons in UCD Lyons Research Farm, but this year has been...
Beef
Forage focus: 'I've no fodder'
“There is a fodder crisis and an urgent response is needed from the Minister for Agriculture.” That was the most...
Tillage
Forage focus: 'Savage' crops of beet pulled in Co. Kildare
Roger Perry was harvesting beet last week. The tillage farmer and contractor is based between Killcullen and Athy in Co. Kildare. The...
