Dairy
Dairy added extras won't be as easy to remove as they are to introduce
After three and a half years working in Ireland, Kiwi Mark Ryder reflects on learning the intricacies of a dairy...
Dairy
After three and a half years working in Ireland, Kiwi Mark Ryder reflects on learning the intricacies of a dairy...
Dairy
Last September ABS Ireland sent its first shipment of AI straws from their grassland programme to New Zealand. Since then...
Dairy
Like it or not we live in interesting times. Dairy farmers today operate in a production environment of unprecedented uncertainty...
Rural Life
The judge of this year’s Diageo Baileys Irish Champion Dairy Cow competition which carries a prize fund of 10,000 Euros...
Dairy
An average price of €2,200 was achieved at the sale of young pedigree heifers as part of the IHFA Open...
Dairy
A new joint farm development programme between Dairygold Co-op and Teagasc has been launched, which is aimed at helping the Society’s...
Beef
Breeding is no silver bullet solution to improving farm profitability, according to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). ICBF bosses...
Breaking News
The ICBF has published the top 200 herds in the country, ranked on EBI. There is no change in the...
Beef
The first 27,000 tags for the Beef Genomics Scheme have been sent out to farms in recent days and postage will...
Breaking News
Poor fertility performance is still the number one barrier to profitable milk production in Ireland. This is according to Dr Pat...
Breaking News
Teagasc is developing a new system that will be used to benchmark the expansion of individual Irish dairy farms against...
Breaking News
While March is a very busy time on dairy farms, it is important to continue to monitor your cash flow. This is...
Breaking News
The Teagasc/GIIL monitor farms in 2013 underlined the importance of fertility both in terms of the cows and the soil. Agriland...
Rural Life
There is a growing interest in milk oligosaccharides. Why? Human milk oligosaccharides (natural milk sugars found in breast milk) have...
Breaking News
There are 49 Irish bred bulls on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF) Dairy Spring List 2014, which is a...
Breaking News
When discussing the benefits of sexed semen there is always those who emphasises the extra cost and lower conception rates....
Breaking News
“It is easy to identify that you have a cell count problem in your herd, however it is much more...
Breaking News
Cork-based Grasstec is confirming a significant growth in demand for Irish bred dairy cows and heifers from its fast-evolving farmer-client...