Grass
Grass output averages 13.8t DM/ha for 2016
The closing cover on the Curtins’ research farm in Co Cork was 740kg DM/ha, according to Teagasc’s pasture base administrator...
Grass
The closing cover on the Curtins’ research farm in Co Cork was 740kg DM/ha, according to Teagasc’s pasture base administrator...
Grass
Winter feeding is well underway and many farmers have long opened their silage pit to start using the reserves of...
Beef
The cost of keeping a spring-calving suckler cow varies considerably across the country, according to Teagasc’s Pearse Kelly. But based...
Beef
Some 81% of farmers said they would reconsider their future in beef farming after 2016, a recent Agriland poll has found....
Environment
Average soil P, K and pH levels remain low and are holding back Irish farmers from meeting the full production...
Tillage
Tillage farmers should start planning for 2017 now, according to Teagasc Specialist Shay Phelan. This entails the development of crop...
Dairy
The possibility of the Netherlands achieving IBR Article 9 status could have a big impact on Irish calf exports, according...
Agri-Business
Revenue has published a revised income tax guideline booklet which, according to Teagasc, is of major benefit to farmers in...
Agri-Business
Teagasc has appointed Dr. John Colreavy as the Director of the Meat Technology Centre (MTC), a new Enterprise Ireland, industry-led initiative....
Agri-Business
Teagasc plans to introduce a revised Green Cert course from the start of the 2017/18 academic year, the Minister for...
Sheep
A joint research project between Teagasc and UCD has discovered a strain of Rumen Fluke on a Irish sheep farm...
Beef
Teagasc needs to go back to the drawing board and look at the advice it offers to low-intensity farmers, ICSA...
Agri-Business
John Horgan has been appointed as the new Teagasc Manager for the advisory regions of counties Kerry and Limerick. Horgan...
Sheep
The prospect of sheep prices improving after Christmas looks unlikely, according to Irish Country Meats’ Dermot O’Sullivan. O’Sullivan spoke at...
Agri-Business
As part of a re-structuring process in the Teagasc Food Research Programme, five people have been newly appointed as Heads of...
Dairy
Teagasc fully recognises the additional challenges faced by milk producers in those areas of the country with heavier soils and...
Agri-Business
Approximately 18,000 Irish farmers are now using the Teagasc eProfit Monitor programme, according to the organisation’s financial management specialist Kevin Connolly....
Agri-Business
Ireland needs a greater numbers of better educated young farmers, according to Director of Research at Teagasc Frank O’Mara. There is...