Forage focus: ’20 phone calls and still no silage’ April 8, 2018 Beef The first thing that strikes you when you walk into Thomas O’Connor’s yard is that you could eat your dinner off the concrete.…
Forage focus: Precision feeding of dairy cows at Lyons Research Farm February 16, 2018 Dairy The autumn-calving dairy herd on UCD’s Lyons Research Farm is currently being fed a mix of maize and grass silage; beet pulp; and…
Forage focus: Beet, barley and silage on a self-sufficient beef farm February 13, 2018 Beef Niall Nicholson farms in partnership with his father Billy just outside Crosshaven, Co. Cork. The first thing that strikes you when you walk…
Forage focus: Would you feed your cattle bread and cake? January 29, 2018 Beef Everyday, in bakeries and mills, bread, cakes and cereals are left on the shelves. However, Sean Tully Animal Feeds takes this surplus food…
Forage focus: Producing 20,000 bales of haylage in Co. Tipperary January 20, 2018 Tillage The concept behind Hayden’s Haylage seems like a relatively simple idea – you make small bales of haylage and you sell them. However,…
Forage focus: ‘Straw Chip’ a thriving business on a tillage farm January 15, 2018 Tillage The Owens brothers are part of a family which has been trading straw for three generations from their farm outside Athy, Co. Kildare.…
Forage focus: Getting a head start with ‘Redstart’ December 21, 2017 Sheep Forage crops have been grown for a number of seasons in UCD Lyons Research Farm, but this year has been the most successful.…
Forage focus: ‘I’ve no fodder’ December 7, 2017 Beef “There is a fodder crisis and an urgent response is needed from the Minister for Agriculture.” That was the most important message coming…
Forage focus: ‘Savage’ crops of beet pulled in Co. Kildare November 11, 2017 Tillage Roger Perry was harvesting beet last week. The tillage farmer and contractor is based between Killcullen and Athy in Co. Kildare. The contractor once pulled…
