Agri-Business
Large crowds gathered in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary today (Wednesday, November 26), as Teagasc held its 2025 National Dairy Conference.
Dairy
Ensuring the winter milking herd is now cycling is an important step as the winter breeding season will not be long rolling around.
With November slipping through our fingers we will not feel it until the breeding season begins, meaning good BCS should be a priority.
Autumn calving is well under way, meaning we will not feel the time slip away before the breeding season begins.
Dairy Focus
Tom Roche is milking 150 jersey cross cows just outside of Castleisland, where he is showcasing good breeding and grassland managment.
The Eivers family in Co. Meath are increasing their winter milk margins through optimum winter diets and selective breeding.
The partnership between Tony McCormack and Christopher Cahill began in January 2022 and after a few tough years, maturing cows and weather...
The Byrne family from Coolnasmear, Co. Waterford have been gradually improving farm infrastructure while producing quality milk with...
The breeding season is well and truly over for the spring calving herds and autumn calving herds now may be interested in what sires...
The Derinsallow Herd in Co. Tipperary are driving for 600kg milk solids (MS)/cow this year through effective breeding and grassland...
The priority turns to scanning your cows as soon as possible to allow for prompt decision making after the breeding season...
Joe Healy is milking 97 pedigree Holstein Friesian cows, where the use of American Holstein genetics, embryo transfers and intensive breeding
Dairy farmer, Tommy Lanigan is milking 260 cows with predominantly Montbeliarde genetics paving the way to an efficient farm system...
Mike Clohessy featured on 'The Dairy Trail' podcast during the week and talked about how he is milking 75 black and white cows in Fedamore,..
As the breeding season wraps up, many farmers will be eager to pinpoint which cows are in calf and which are not, culling any empties.
Farmers should not miss the opportunity to genotype their herd now that the National Genotyping Programme is open again to all Irish...
Environment
An investigation is underway following the discovery of one of Ireland’s oldest breeding...
We are now a couple of weeks into the breeding season for many dairy farmers with still little sign of a stock bull out in fields just yet...
Now that we are into the second week of May, farm safety must be at the helm as the busyness on farms is beginning to ramp up...
Health and heat detection collars have become very popular on dairy farms across the country as they have the ability to alert farmers...
We are now into the breeding season and for the majority of dairy farms, sexed semen usage is going to dominate the first three weeks...
As the breeding season kicks off for most dairy farmers around the country, heat detection is going to take up a large chunk...
The use of a stock bull on dairy farms has died down substantially in recent years with the growth in artificial insemination (AI) year...
