Agri-Business
Fodder Survey: 'North West' farms tight for winter feed
Teagasc have recently updated the national fodder survey across dairy and drystock farms nationwide. It comes as a follow-up to...
Agri-Business
Teagasc have recently updated the national fodder survey across dairy and drystock farms nationwide. It comes as a follow-up to...
Dairy Technical
The weather conditions over the last few weeks are now really impacting on farms and it may be time to...
Agri-Business
The Rural TDs group has acknowledged the recent one-week extension to the slurry spreading deadline but added that it is...
Dairy
Farmers keen to ensure that their cows will get the best out of the silage they have harvested in recent...
Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has reminded farmers that the closing date to amend applications for...
Machinery News
Kuhn Farm Machinery has launched a 13m mounted tedder which, the company claims, is the largest of its type on...
Machinery
The seventh Ahiohill Vintage Harvest Day will take place in Lisnacuanna, Co. Cork on Sunday, September 3, with gates opening...
Rural Life
From using calving cameras for CCTV, to creating physical barriers at gates, coming up with ways to prevent the theft...
Dairy Technical
A certain level of silage effluent is expected when harvesting crops, but this year due to the very wet weather,...
Machinery
Lightweight butterfly mower sets have been gaining attention this season, yet that does not mean to say that more robust...
Dairy Technical
The last few days have seen many farmers move to harvest second-cut silage as there was a brief break from...
Rural Life
The wet weather conditions experienced this July “have been nearly as bad as the wet summer of 1985,” one farmer...
Dairy Technical
Something that needs to be completed on farms over the coming days, if not already done, is a fodder budget....
Agri-Business
Contractors around the country have reported that 15% less first-cut silage was harvested on average this year compared to 2022....
Agri-Business
A survey undertaken Teagasc has shown that on average, dairy and drystock farms are on target to have adequate winter...
Grass
Sodium has been recommended as an integral component of all grassland (grazing and silage) fertiliser programmes. The benefits of the...
Dairy Technical
For those that may run short on silage, a fodder crop may be a solution. Although last winter was quite...
Agri-Business
A “comprehensive” and “robust” survey of current fodder stocks on dairy and beef farms is currently underway across the country....