Beef
Forage crops: What options do I have?
Due to the lack of silage supplies on farms across the country, farmers may look at forage crops as a...
Beef
Due to the lack of silage supplies on farms across the country, farmers may look at forage crops as a...
Beef
Average farm covers are extremely low across the country and many farmers have no option but to turn to second-cut...
Beef
There has been some movement on the Turkish market front in recent days. A number of Irish exporters have put consignments...
Beef
Figures from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) show that the total beef kill for the week...
Beef
Farming just outside Ballyroan, Co. Laois, John Mullhall operates a dairy store-to-beef system in conjunction with a tillage enterprise. Recently,...
Beef
There has been a lot of confusion surrounding the €uro-Star Indexes in recent times. Some farmers argue that they have...
Beef
Many beef and sheep farmers are coming under increased pressure from the hot weather; grass growth has remained extremely slow....
Beef
Beef factories have most certainly taken back control of the market and continue to implement further price cuts. Processors have...
Beef
Ireland’s dairy-beef industry has found itself propelled into the fast lane. With expansion in the national dairy herd in recent...
Beef
There is further bad news for beef finishers this week, as processors ramp up the pressure following on from the...
Beef
Teagasc’s BEEF 2018 event – a major day for the Irish beef industry – will take place at the Teagasc...
Grass
The end of March this year was marked by the successful completion of the European Exceptional Adjustment Aid (EAA) funded...
Grass
Timothy should not be overlooked as a species of grass that can be included in seed mixes under Irish conditions,...
Beef
Farming on the Sligo/Leitrim border, Declan Oates runs a suckler-to-weaning enterprise on 44ac of land. An additional 13ac of commonage...
Beef
The beef processing plants that were approved to export to China last month have been revealed, with ABP Nenagh, Kepak...
Beef
News that private-sector buyers in Turkey have been given the all clear to purchase weanling bulls in Ireland for export...
Tillage
Eamonn Burke is a farmer with a difference; he has no land of his own. The Co. Galway man farms...
Beef
Farming 50ha in Kilnamartyra, Co. Cork, Ger Dineen and his family have made considerable changes to their suckler-to-beef farm in...