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Dairy Technical
Winter preparations: Supplies for housed period
Winter preparations are well underway on farms to ensure that the housed period is successful. To ensure the housed period...
Dairy Technical
Winter preparations are well underway on farms to ensure that the housed period is successful. To ensure the housed period...
Dairy Technical
The dry period can be a high-risk time for cows picking up mastitis-causing infections, which often present early in the...
Agri-Business
Beef Plan Movement (BPM) has urged Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe to include a €5/t subsidy on lime in Budget...
Machinery
Invention and farming are never far apart and this was amply demonstrated in the innovation tent at Ploughing 2022 in...
Opinion
I heartily concur with the Beef Plan Movement’s proposed introduction of a ‘lime subsidy’, covering both procurement and spreading costs....
Dairy Technical
Dairy farms in 2022 have experienced record-high input prices, however margins have appeared to be quite good this year too....
Dairy Technical
The good weather over the last number of days has resulted in some farmers moving to harvest their second cut...
Beef
On many beef and sheep farms, in particular where ground is rented, farmers can be reluctant to spend money on...
Tillage Technical
With maize crops costing up to €1,000/ac to grow, will merchants and the banks be willing to finance the Tillage...
Tillage
Teagasc soil specialist, David Law, has dispelled the old myth that spreading lime on conacre ground cannot be justified on...
Tillage
Nitrogen prices are up 250% relative to this time last year, according to Teagasc tillage specialist, Ciaran Collins. Speaking on...
Dairy Technical
Heifer mastitis can be an issue on some farms, with heifers calving down with mastitis or a case developing early...
Dairy Technical
A brisket board or pipe is a useful way to control the position of a cow on cubicles, thus reducing...
Dairy Technical
October has nearly turned to November and grass growth has dropped as most of the country experienced significant rainfall in...
Dairy Technical
Most dairy farms have now started their final grazing rotation of the year, as they prepare for their farm and...
Opinion
I take with an absolute pinch of salt, all these prophets of doom predicting that fertiliser prices will keep on...
Dairy Technical
Using soil sampling to correct soil pH offers many benefits to farmers. This article will look at what those benefits...
Dairy Technical
Silage season is well underway on Irish dairy farms, with the harvesting of second-cut silage due to begin on farms...