Dairy
Showers and rainfall have been coming and going this week but in general the ground conditions are ideal for reseeding which has allowed...
Keeping costs down is the driver of profitability for Cork dairy farmer Joe Deane who has built his way up in the dairy industry through...
Sulphur and nitrogen go hand-in-hand when it comes to maximising grass production and sward quality during the grazing season.
Fertiliser nutrients are not applied to make plants grow; it is a lack of an adequate supply of nutrients that does.
"If we ramp up grass production, we can stock the farm at higher rates. If 16t/ha of grass is grown, we can carry a stocking rate of three cows per hectare."
