Grass
Are you making the most of your silage bales in May?
Maurice Keady, Sales Manager with Irish silage wrap (plastic) company Silawrap, has offered advice on how to get the most out of baled...
Grass
Maurice Keady, Sales Manager with Irish silage wrap (plastic) company Silawrap, has offered advice on how to get the most out of baled...
Grass
There is a variety of prices being quoted around the country for a roll of silage wrap, with factors such as...
Grass
There is a diverse range of silage cutting prices being quoted by agricultural contractors around the country as ‘silage season’...
Dairy
The Department of Agriculture, Enterprise and Rural Affairs (DAERA), in Northern Ireland, has issued best-practice guidelines for dairy farmers during the month of...
Grass
Teagasc’s Tom Ryan is concerned about what he regards as the over-filling of many silos (pits) on Irish livestock farms....
Grass
A warm weather forecast for this week is going to drive up grass growth rates; it is much needed on some...
Grass
Plastic sheeting brand Visqueen recently ‘rolled out’ its newest development in its silage cover range – in the form of ‘seven-layer technology’...
Grass
The silage cutting season has well and truly started, with many farmers arousing their mowers, balers, forage harvesters and silage...
Sheep
John Bell farms on the outskirts of Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath, where he runs a sheep-only system on 46ha of...
Beef
Joe Farrell and his family are participants in the Teagasc Green Acres Calf-to-Beef programme and operate a mixed enterprise, consisting...
Machinery
While there is no FTMTA (Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association) Grass & Muck event this year, the association has...
Grass
Over the last five years, the use of a wide polythene film to bind bales before wrapping has grown significantly. Supporters...
Dairy
It’s mid-April and the sun is shining. Temperatures are varying quite a bit throughout the country but farms that got the...
Grass
Livestock farmers have been urged to roll their silage ground now by the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland...
Grass
A new and improved ‘next generation’ silage additive is expected to become available to farmers next year. Biotal, a Lallemand...
Grass
Grass growth rates on farms across the country are sitting between 19 and 23kg DM/Ha/day, figures from the Teagasc PastureBase...
Grass
Grazing conditions were difficult during the first three months of the year and many farmers are only now beginning to...
Grass
A welcome stretch in the evenings is helping to dry things up a bit. There has been a lot of...