Agri-Business
Video: Suckler farmer adding €8,000/year to his cattle sales
Farming in Ballyhale, south Co. Kilkenny is Jimmy Madigan, a suckler-beef farmer running a split-calving herd. Every year, 100 suckler...
Agri-Business
Farming in Ballyhale, south Co. Kilkenny is Jimmy Madigan, a suckler-beef farmer running a split-calving herd. Every year, 100 suckler...
Beef
A growing number of farmers are buying-in calves every year and rearing these animals to beef. Often when buying calves,...
Beef
Out of the 410 calves purchased this year on the ABP Demonstration (Demo) Farm, 160 have been weaned off milk...
Beef
New entrants to beef farming, Brian and Damien Flynn, have come a long way in a short space of time...
Beef
All calves born from 2023 onwards must be bred from a sire with a ‘minimum genetic merit’ in order to...
Beef
First-cut silage for 2022 got underway on the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow this week when a 9ac field...
Beef
It’s ‘all systems go’ with regards to grazing on the Advantage Beef Programme (ABP) Demo Farm, as the spring-born calves...
Beef
The Advantage Beef Programme (ABP) Demonstration (Demo) Farm is a 280ac farm in Co. Carlow operating a dairy calf-to-beef system. The purpose of the...
Beef
The importance of sire information when selecting the calves to enter a calf-to-beef system is something that more and more...
Beef
In 2015, the well-known Irish beef processing firm ABP joined a partnership with two beef farmers based in Co. Carlow...
Beef
The beef processor ABP has moved to offer farmers a ‘safety net’ price through its recently launched Advantage Beef Programme....
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ABP’s recently launched Advantage Beef Programme is the first integrated beef scheme in Ireland to pay a sustainability bonus to...
Beef News
In the past two weeks, there have been many positive signals from beef processors about extra money which may be...
Beef
ABP has launched a new beef-production scheme for farmers that will see the beef processor pay an additional 20c/kg ‘sustainability...