Dairy
Over the last number of years, particularly after last year's drought, the number of farmers growing fodder crops has increased.
Grass
The country is in the midst of a major fodder crisis and many farmers are still scrambling to acquire supplies to feed their stock.
Sheep
An 8ha crop of Redstart has finished 200 lambs and set UCD's ewes up for the lambing season; saving on labour and meal.
Brothers Richie and Paddy Daly run a dairy cow herd along side a dairy calf to beef operation in Moyne, Co. Tipperary.