Sheep
Teagasc will host two National Sheep Conferences this month which will focus on nutrition management, family farm transfer, and flock health.
Opportunities to improve efficiency of sheep production in Ireland will be outlined at the two Teagasc National Lowland Sheep Conferences.
This year’s IGA Sheep Conference will take place on Thursday, May 23, in the Headfort Arms Hotel, Kells, Co. Meath.
The many nutritional challenges facing the ewe during late pregnancy must be managed in order to avoid a detrimental lambing outcome, according to UCD's Prof. Tommy Boland.
Processors must reward farmers for producing wether lambs, Teagasc's Prof. Michael Diskin told a crowd of over 200 farmers recently
A worrying trend has emerged, which suggests that the soils on drystock farms have inadequate soil fertility levels to grow grass.
The latest research and advice for sheep farmers will be available at the two upcoming Teagasc National Sheep Conferences.
A ewes energy and protein requirements increases significantly in the final weeks leading up to lambing, according to Teagasc's Frank Campion.
Vaccination is the most effective way to control both pasteurella and clostridial diseases in ewes, according to William Fitzgerald.
