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Forage focus: Feeding home-grown crops on rented land in Co. Galway

June 11, 2018

Tillage

Eamonn Burke is a farmer with a difference; he has no land of his own. The Co. Galway man farms on rented ground…

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…

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