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Dairy management: what to do with cull cows?
Aidan Brennan works out what's best: sell or keep empty cows.
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‘People are prepared to gamble their liberty’ – Beef Plan co-chair
Beef Plan's Hugh Doyle said when he left the beef talks he felt there was something to offer farmers.
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‘Illegal blockades’ show disregard for beef agreement – factories
Meat Industry Ireland (MII) has said that ‘illegal blockades’ remain in place and are causing irreparable damage to the Irish beef sector.
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Listowel Races: it’s a feeling
The Race is on … to Munster’s biggest and best harvest racing festival.
Listowel will host its 161th harvest racing festival from Sunday to Saturday 8 to 14 September.
Monday management: creep-feeding calves
As grass quality starts to tail off, creep-feeding spring-born calves will help maintain liveweight gain.
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Dairy management: what to do with cull cows?
Aidan Brennan works out what's best: sell or keep empty cows.
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Dairygold cuts August milk price by 1c/l
Dairygold is the fourth co-op to set its milk price for August and it has announced a 1c/l cut.
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The long-term solution for dock control
Where docks are a problem in silage swards, it pays to control them before the silage is cut. When it comes to your choice of herbicide, DoxstarPro is a highly effective product for controlling docks.
Sheep farm walk: time to assess finishing plans for lambs
Lambs should be weighed now and the weights collated. This will determine what options are available to finish lambs, while ensuring grass supplies are prioritised for ewes.
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Listowel Races: it’s a feeling
The Race is on … to Munster’s biggest and best harvest racing festival.
Listowel will host its 161th harvest racing festival from Sunday to Saturday 8 to 14 September.
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Insist on Titan in your feed formulations! Not all kelp products are Ascophyllum nodosum.
LIDL Ireland has added 65 Irish products to their shelves
For a third consecutive year, Lidl has called out to suppliers in Ireland and Northern Ireland to enter products into their supplier development programme, Kick Start.
Come and join ALDI at the most amazing marquee for entertainment
Aldi once again returns to the National Ploughing Championships from 17 to 19 September – and what a jam-packed line-up they’re bringing with them!
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Wholecrop rye was harvested on the Co Antrim farm of Mark Blelock in August
Stephen Robb visits the Farmers Journal Kilkenny From the Tramline farmer, James O’Reilly to see how his baling progress was going. Contractor Padraig White bales James’s straw using three Krone 8x4x4square balers and gathers the bales with up to three Heath bale chasers.
Journal vet tommy heffernan talks emmisions and meat with Fergal Morris
Drone footage showing improvements in grazing and silage ground on Barry Carty’s farm at Garrison, Co Fermanagh.
Dairylink Ireland participant James King farms near Ballymena, Co Antrim.
Co Down farmer Derek Robinson is questioning the prices being paid for replacement sheep this year.
18 month old finishing heifers on THRIVE Hally Farm in Tipperary
The value of diagnostics in beef herds
Video 1 of 13. In this video we introduce the concept of One Health.
Dairymaster wins top prize at 2019 Innovation Arena
The Kerry-based milking technology company has won the overall award at this year's Innovation Arena.
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Big new Fendt 942 makes Irish debut at action-packed Field Days event
The all-new Fendt 942 series tractor make its first appearance on Irish soil at the action-packed Field Days event this Wednesday and Thursday.
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Hefty fine for green diesel in old field car
Customs officials entered a farmer's yard without warning and dipped 16-year-old, off road vehicle.
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From the Tramlines: harvest 2019 will be remembered for very different reasons
Harvest 2019 has drawn to a close for many growers and it will be remembered for very different reasons, Stephen Robb writes
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Catch crops in focus in Wexford
Stephen Robb looks at the key take home messages from the recent Teagasc Catch Crop Drilling and Demonstration day in Wexford.
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