Beef
Naughten urges farmers to make ag committee submissions
Independent TD Denis Naughten is urging farmers and farmer representative groups to follow up on a Dail committee call for...
Beef
Independent TD Denis Naughten is urging farmers and farmer representative groups to follow up on a Dail committee call for...
Beef
The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is seeking submissions on the future of the beef sector...
Beef
The UK’s newly-published temporary tariff regime suggests that “Armageddon is around the corner”, a farm lobby group has warned. Speaking...
Beef
It’s a case of ‘as you were’ on the beef price front, with base prices for steers at 375c/kg and...
Green Acres
There are many factors that farmers should consider when it comes to housing for their calves. These include: ventilation; dryness;...
Dairy
Coccidiosis occurs in calves from the approximate age of three weeks onwards. It arises in young calves who have an...
Green Acres
Purchasing calves direct from dairy farmers can have many benefits for calf-to-beef finishers. Firstly, beef farmers know the health status...
Beef
It is 14 years ago since the current beef grading machines were introduced. That is three years before the iPhone...
Beef
While farm organisations have come out this week strongly opposed to the 30-month age limit for steers and heifers and...
Beef
A total number of 35,869 (excluding calves) beef cattle were processed during the week ending February 24 – a 1,172...
Beef
The latest report from the Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) indicates that Irish beef heifer prices increased by 1.2c/kg from...
Beef
The calving season is in full swing on many suckler farms around the country, with farmers progressing nicely through the...
Green Acres
Farming just outside Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, father-and-son duo Thomas and Peter O’Hanrahan run a dairy calf-to-beef enterprise on 230ac of...
Green Acres
The recent spell of good weather has allowed farmers to make use of the favourable grazing conditions and get stock...
Beef
Yet again, farmers and finishers marketing beef cattle continue to battle against the odds this week, with quotes largely unchanged...
Beef
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has given its backing to a proposal to set up ‘producer-marketer groups’....
Beef
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is currently seeking submissions in respect of its beef review which is being carried out...
Beef
Simon Coveney, Tanaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, has said that “significant amounts of money” will be put...