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SCEP: What is the average cow reference number in each county?
The Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) saw over 20,000 applications by its closing date of May 22. Each of these...
Beef
The Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) saw over 20,000 applications by its closing date of May 22. Each of these...
Beef
There are 9,200 dairy farmers in Ireland that keep only dairy cows while there are just under 46,700 suckler farmers...
Beef
The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) has signed off on a €28 million package set to be rolled...
Beef
Over 20,000 suckler farmers applied to the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) ahead of the deadline for applications last night...
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Large crowds of suckler farmers gathered on the farm of Padraig Gerety, near Kenagh, Co. Longford, on Wednesday evening (April...
Beef
The new Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) is officially open to applications from farmers. The scheme opened for applications on...
Agri-Business
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has called on Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue to deliver a...
Beef
Suckler farmers will get “a derogation” in year one if they do not meet requirements set out in the new...
Beef News
Dovea Genetics hosted a beef breeding event at Mayo Sligo Livestock Mart in Ballina, Co. Mayo on Thursday evening (March...
Agri-Business
The Irish Family Farm Group (IFFG) has claimed that the new Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) is “not fit for...
Beef
All suckler farmers must be able to access the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP), which is due to come into...
Beef
It was an in-calf Charolais-cross heifer that took the top price at the weekly sale of heifers, bullocks and dry...
Agri-Business
The president of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) Dermot Kelleher has said that government funding is urgently...
Beef
The government must not sacrifice Ireland’s “sustainable suckler sector” to deliver on its climate and emissions reduction targets, the Irish...
Beef
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) latest calf registration statistics show that the number of suckler-bred calvings to date this...
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Only 24% of suckler-bred heifers calve at 22-26 months nationally. In the dairy sector, this calving figure stands at 75%,...
Beef
There are calls for the government to carry out an assessment of both the social and economic impacts of a...
Beef
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has labelled speculation that the suckler herd will be sacrificed to maintain...