Beef
BDGP: 'Farmers are maybe losing €200 on the sale price of their weanling to get €80'
While suckler farmers must welcome payments under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP), they must take stock of what...
Beef
While suckler farmers must welcome payments under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP), they must take stock of what...
Beef
Many beef farmers travelled to the BEEF 2018 event in Teagasc Grange today to hear of possible avenues of increasing...
Opinion
Teagasc must be made an honest broker in the fast-developing debate on how best to manage the forage crisis that...
Opinion
Congratulations to Patrick Kent on his re-election as president of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA). Over the...
Opinion
I couldn’t quite see where Irish Cattle and Sheep Association (ICSA) President Patrick Kent was coming from earlier this week...
Opinion
Recently, local papers in the west of Ireland have been full of mart adverts, which highlight upcoming suckler dispersal sales....
Beef
A change appears to be occurring on Irish farms and it now looks like the future is becoming increasingly black...
Beef
Cow attacks greatly outnumber bull attacks in terms of fatalities, according to Teagasc’s National Health and Safety Specialist, John McNamara. Cow...
Dairy
The percentage of empty cows in a herd at the end of the year has fallen to between 6-7% in the...
Beef
The vast majority of suckler calves are not reaching their full growth potential, according to Harper Adams’ Beef Specialist Simon...
Beef
Dairy farmers are looking to increase cash flow in the spring time by getting the most value for their calves...
Beef
Calving heifers down at 24 months makes commercial sense and is critical to suckler farming success, Agricultural Consultant Ian Kenny has...
Beef
Calving may seem like a long way away for spring-calving suckler herds, but winter management decisions can have a big...
Beef
When cows are seven months through gestation farmers should test for neospora, a disease which increases the risk of abortion,...
Beef
Teagasc is predicting a further decline in suckler cow numbers between now and 2025. In its recently published Road Map...
Beef
The first ever incorporation of the genomic evaluations into the breeding indices developed by the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF)...
Beef
The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has been called on to reopen the Beef Data Genomics Programme to ‘hard-pressed’ suckler...
Beef
Rearing replacement heifers is a key component of suckler herd management. An annual 20% replacement rate is recommended for suckler...