Beef
ABP Demo Farm hosts info event for ag committee
Members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine recently visited the ABP Demo Farm in Co....
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Beef
ABP to host suckler-beef farm walk in Cavan this week
ABP Food Group’s new sustainability scheme, the Advantage Beef Programme, will host a suckler-beef farm walk in Co. Cavan this...
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Bord Bia embarks on 4-day trade mission to Southeast Asia
This week (October 7 to 10), Bord Bia, along with the Department of Agriculture, embarks on a four-day trade mission...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: 78% of 2021-born heifers finished by October 1
A total of 145 of the 2021-born heifers on the ABP Demo Farm have now been finished. 15 more will...
Beef
ABP Demo farm: Results in from first heifers finished
The first group of 2021-born cattle has been sent for processing at the ABP Demo Farm. Of the 2021-born heifers,...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: Planning grass in prolonged dry spell
While many parts of the country have received rainfall over the past number of days, others have received very little...
Beef
Heifers and steers: Graze separately or together?
Many beef finishers have a preference for finishing one particular category of cattle over the others. Some farmers will buy...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: 2021-born heifers begin finishing phase
The 2021-born heifers on the ABP Demo Farm have started receiving concentrates this week, as the heifers and steers in...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: 'Genetics should determine calf price, not looks'
The ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow hosted a farm walk for Advantage Beef Programme members and ABP suppliers yesterday...
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With the year end fast approaching, now is the time to be planning on what can be done to minimise...
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ABP Demo Farm: 2021-born cattle doing 0.93kg/day off grass
The 2021-born cattle on the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow are continuing to thrive well as the grazing season...
Beef
Finishing cattle: 'An ounce of breeding worth 20t of feeding'
An old saying that is often mentioned in discussions among farmers about cattle is: ‘An ounce of breeding is worth...
Agri-Business
Dock beetle-mania: Irish-bred insect waging war on weeds
An Irish-bred beetle is leading the charge in the war against weeds and ABP Food Group (ABP) has recruited “battalions”...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: Cattle thriving well but reseed slow to strike
Results from the most recent monthly weighing of the 2021-born cattle on the ABP Demo Farm indicated an Average Daily...
Beef
Video: Why do some calves thrive better than others?
A growing number of farmers are buying-in calves every year and rearing these animals to beef. Often when buying calves,...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: 160 calves weaned and out to grass
Out of the 410 calves purchased this year on the ABP Demonstration (Demo) Farm, 160 have been weaned off milk...
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Watch: Calor provides instant hot water solution for Kilkenny dairy farmer
Access to hot water is crucial to Irish dairy farms. All farms require a reliable and consistent method of heating...
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ABP Demo Farm: Five cuts of silage with no fertiliser
First-cut silage for 2022 got underway on the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow this week when a 9ac field...
Beef
ABP Demo Farm: Managing over 400 beef cattle at grass
It’s ‘all systems go’ with regards to grazing on the Advantage Beef Programme (ABP) Demo Farm, as the spring-born calves...
Beef
Video: See inside ABP Demo Farm's calf-rearing operation
The Advantage Beef Programme (ABP) Demonstration (Demo) Farm is a 280ac farm in Co. Carlow operating a dairy calf-to-beef system. The purpose of the...
Beef
Sire traits key to calf growth on ABP Demo Farm
The importance of sire information when selecting the calves to enter a calf-to-beef system is something that more and more...