Beef
Teagasc Grange will examine the effect of running its Derrypatrick herd at a lower stocking rate but with improved profitability per head.
'We calved down 105 heifers and cows with 110 live calves. We had nine sets of twins and lost four calves in total'.
Agri-Business
The sky appears to be the limit for John Heslin who, at just shy of his 26th birthday, is rising through the ranks of Irish agriculture.
Located in Co. Meath, the Teagasc demonstration farm is a suckler cow-to beef operation ran under the watchful eye of John Heslin.