Tillage
Spring barley, spring oats and fodder beet make up the main tillage crops on the farm; these crops are used to feed his beef animals. Eamonn also grows kale to out-winter his beef cattle on.
Beef
Thomas is a young farmer. He's well-organised and manages his grassland. However, he has run out of silage.
Dairy
The autumn dairy herd on UCD Lyons Research Farm are currently being fed a mix of maize and grass silage, beet pulp and soya.
Niall Nicholson farms in partnership with his father Billy. The Nicholsons feed their own beet, barley and silage and buy in some soya.
Seán Tully Animal Feeds takes surplus food, adds distillers grains and sugar and produces two animal feed rations - beef and dairy.
The concept behind Hayden's Haylage seems like a relatively simple idea - you make small bales of haylage and you sell them.
The Owens brothers are part of a family which has been trading straw for three generations from...
Sheep
An 8ha crop of Redstart has finished 200 lambs and set UCD's ewes up for the lambing season; saving on labour and meal.
There is a fodder crisis going on and an urgent response is needed from the minister - that was the message coming from the INHFA rally.
Roger Perry was harvesting beet last week. The tillage farmer and contractor is based between Killcullen and Athy in Co. Kildare.
