Beef
The dos and the don'ts of taking dung samples
Dung sampling can be used as an effective tool in the fight against disease on cattle farms. It provides an...
Beef
Dung sampling can be used as an effective tool in the fight against disease on cattle farms. It provides an...
Opinion
This week’s talk of degressive support payments to farmers is a distraction from the core issue of how the European...
Beef
The Gene Ireland Maternal Beef Breeding Programme was launched in autumn 2012 and was established by the ICBF (Irish Cattle...
Beef
The Irish dairy-beef industry is ever growing and is a very important cog in the beef production chain. Due to...
Opinion
The current hue and cry over the need to have better live shipping facilities for dairy-born bull calves reflects one...
Beef
There has been a dramatic increase in dairy cow numbers over the past five years. This is mainly due to...
Beef
Diminishing returns from beef markets have resulted in farmers looking at other options and enterprises to generate a profit. One...
Beef
Recent figures have revealed the extent to which O and P-grade animals – dairy-origin stock in other words – have dominated...
Beef
The demise of the national suckler cow herd was the basis of a meeting recently organised by the Irish Farm-Family...
Beef
Granard Mart’s weekly weanling heifer and bull sale took place on Monday evening last (January 15). A nice crowd attended...
Beef
The day has passed when offal and skins had no value and the farmer must now get a fair share...
Beef
Farming in Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, Oliver O’Hanlon has been working the land since 1975. Originally, Oliver ran a dairy herd...
Opinion
This is a challenging enough time for agriculture in Ireland. CAP reform is, once again, on the horizon as is...
Beef
The importance of the Chinese market to the Irish agri-food sector is much more complex than the country having a...
Beef
There is a possibility that beef carcase weights could decline further in 2018, according to Bord Bia’s Joe Burke. Burke...
Beef
Winter feeding is well and truly underway and silage pits are starting to decrease in size. Due to the adverse...
Beef
In 2017, there were around 3.15 million individual searches for sires recorded on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) animal search...
Beef
It has been confirmed that contracts have now been awarded for the provision of advisory services to producer organisations in...