Dairy
Spreading slurry? Here's how long you need to wait before applying urea
Farmers spreading urea and slurry at this time of year need to spread out the time between each application, according...
Dairy
Farmers spreading urea and slurry at this time of year need to spread out the time between each application, according...
Dairy
Measuring grass is key to the success of Sean Daly’s dairy farm and he likened it to driving a tractor...
Agri-Business
Agri-food systems need a radical overhaul to provide healthy diets from sustainable food systems urgently, according to Dr Frank Rijsberman, CEO of...
Beef
Beef farmers can save €72 on the cost of keeping weanlings over the winter, by increasing the quality of the...
Beef
Now is the time to focus on silage quality not next May, according to Teagasc’s Michael Daly. The Teagasc Drystock...
Beef
An electric fence is one of the cheapest and most important investments that beef farmers can make, according to Teagasc...
Grass
Dairy farmers using a spring rotation planner should have grazed 66% of their farms by March 17, according to Teagasc....
Grass
Lime is the most important and cheapest nutrient that farmers can apply to their soils to increase grass growth, according...
Grass
Grazing conditions have improved on many farms around the country, but some farmers in the west are only starting to...
Dairy
Fertility is key to achieving a six-week 90% calving rate and farmers should focus on the EBI’s sub-fertility index when...
Beef
The Derrypatrick herd is a suckler beef-systems research farm established at Teagasc, Grange, Dunsany, Co. Meath in 2009. The trial herd...
Tillage
Winter crops are at normal growth stages and all regions report lower than normal plant counts due to the extreme...
Agri-Business
Ornua has opened its new €20m cheese manufacturing facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which will manufacture white cheeses for the...
Grass
To show that grass is the best feed for dairy cows this spring, Teagasc has organised a series of spring...
Tillage
After surviving one of the wettest recorded winters it is difficult to contemplate setting foot on most tillage fields let alone...
Agri-Business
A series of new part-time/work-based courses are to be launched by Teagasc for the horticulture sector, the College of Amenity...
Dairy
Spring grazing can be challenging on some farms, but one farm in Tipperary has saved €50/cow through early turn out....
Grass
Clover has the potential to add valuable Nitrogen to grazing swards, according to Teagasc’s James Humphreys. “The key benefit of...