Beef
The focus for beef farmers in October will switch from building grass covers to closing paddocks in rotation to provide grass next spring.
Sheep
Autumn is the starting point of the grassland year.
Dairy Focus
Liam Rochford is milking 152 cows outside Cleariestown in Co. Wexford, but only 58ha of the 160ha block are used for the dairy enterprise.
Rural Life
Farmers from Monaghan, Cavan and surrounding counties are being invited to take part in a free six-week course exploring soil health.
Ger and Enda Armstrong are milking 137 cows in partnership in Kilcolgan, Co. Galway, with a strong focus on breeding and grassland management.
Grass
We have had plenty of rain so far this month, and now with a warm front rolling in grass growth may become hard to manage.
Dairy
With the way fertiliser prices have gone since the war broke out in the Middle East, the importance of lime has once again proven itself.
It has been far from a smooth spring grazing so far, following one of the wettest starts to the year we have experienced in a long time.
Agri-Business
Agriland visited the farm of Brian and Peter Kelly in Co. Monaghan to see how their grassland management is fairing out this spring.
After one of the wettest starts to the year we have seen in a long time, grazing conditions are still in dire states.
Agriland recently visited the Hanbidges' dairy farm in Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow for one of the Teagasc Grass10 spring grazing farm walks.
Agriland visited the farm of Michael Harty in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary to see how his grassland management is shaping up this spring.
Getting cows out to grass is still looking like a distant task considering the saturated condition of paddocks following the wet weather.
2025 was a great year for both grass and clover growth; however, after a tricky 2024 many farmers remained sceptical of reseeding with clover.
The European Commission has officially extended Ireland's nitrates derogation, but what new conditions will affect farmers on the ground.
The Irish Grassland Association (IGA) Dairy Summer tour this year heads to the stunning Blackwater Valley in North Cork to visit...
Environment
Top European grassland farmers were celebrated last week in Ireland, as part of the...
The start of February has been cold, yet relatively dry, allowing many farmers to get cows out for grazing this spring.
N.Ireland
The Fendt Former medium rake range is aimed primarily at European farms which tend to keep as much tractor work in-house as possible...
At the open day in Johnstown castle, Co. Wexford, attendees got a chance to learn about the sustainable winter-milk herd that were...
The second stop of the IGA summer tour took us to the farm of Roy and Trevor Cobbe where they have found their farm partnership very...
The IGA Summer Tour for 2024 took place today on Tuesday, July 9 in Co. Laois. The tour took us to two farms where there was a wide range...
A farm walk held on a Co. Down sheep farm by a father and son duo will be focused on getting profit from pasture, CAFRE has said.
