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Is there a quality issue with beef?
Consumer taste panels suggest that beef eating quality is variable, but processors argue that they receive very few complaints
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Meat factories on wage subsidy scheme
Revenue has published the list of companies in Ireland, including meat factories, who availed of the Government's wage subsidy.
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Change sheep welfare reference years – IFA
The current scheme does not reflect some farmers' flock size, the organisation says.
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CalfChat finds strategies for reducing the physical strain of the calving period
Feeding and moving newborn calves are the two most difficult tasks at calving, according to a survey of farmers participating in a Bonanza Calf Nutrition online CalfChat event.
Mart numbers drop 30% as Level 5 restrictions bite
With ringsides closed to bidders marts have experienced at significant drop in numbers forward.
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Farm Tech Talk – The livestock show
WATCH: It’s the end of October, the fields are getting wet, but there are still plenty of animals outside
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Watch: Donegal’s Starrett family crowned 2020 Quality Milk Award winners
Richard and Wendy Starrett from Lifford in County Donegal have won the overall prize in this year’s NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards, writes Jack Kennedy.
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Refresh your drying off technique for optimum results
Research has clearly demonstrated the link between infection during the dry cow period and subsequent clinical mastitis and elevated somatic cell counts (SCC) in early lactation.
Farm Tech Talk – The livestock show
WATCH: It’s the end of October, the fields are getting wet, but there are still plenty of animals outside
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Refresh your drying off technique for optimum results
Research has clearly demonstrated the link between infection during the dry cow period and subsequent clinical mastitis and elevated somatic cell counts (SCC) in early lactation.
CalfChat finds strategies for reducing the physical strain of the calving period
Feeding and moving newborn calves are the two most difficult tasks at calving, according to a survey of farmers participating in a Bonanza Calf Nutrition online CalfChat event.
Normal Life may be on hold, but farming life continues
John Finucane is a dairy farmer from Askeaton, Co Limerick, who wanted to develop his farm. When he went looking for finance, he realised…
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Gary Abbott recently spent some time with the 37m3 Krone MX 370 GL forage wagon to see how it performed
Grass quality has improved greatly over the last week as the farm received an ideal amount of rain.
Martin Corrigan farms with his father Kevin just outside Belcoo, Co Fermanagh. They run a herd of 27 Simmental cross cows with the farm undergoing some major changes over the past three years.
In today's episode the Irish Farmers Journal's Lorcan Allen speaks to Paul Crosson, John Finn and Sinead Waters on ‘Sustainable Beef Production - Where policy meets practice’. The team also look at what's happening around sustainability on the BRIDE Project in East Cork, in Co. Kilkenny with Teagasc's Catherine Keena. The team also visit Tully Farm in Co. Kildare.
John Egerton stopped breeding his spring-calving cows after seven weeks.
Dairylink Ireland participant Stephen Wallace farms near Seaforde, Co Down.
Adam Woods, Beef & Suckler Editor with the Irish Farmers Journal is joined by Donall Fahy, Bernadette Earley and Alan Dillon from Teagasc who focus on the Grange dairy calf-to-beef system study and the key components that are helping achieve high performance. Adam also pays a visit to Tipperary dairy calf to beef farmer J.P Hammersley to take a look at his system of farming.
Adam Woods, Beef & Suckler Editor with the Irish Farmers Journal is joined by Michael McManus, Bernadette Earley and Alan Twomey from Teagasc. Focusing on the Derrypatrick Herd at the Teagasc Animal and Grassland, Research and Innovation centre, in Grange County Meath, this episode of Beef Talk will look at how it achieves its breeding targets of 100% AI and a very compact calving.
Beef editor Adam Woods speaks to Tullamore Farm manager Shaun Diver about what’s been happening on Tullamore farm over the last few weeks
Watch: Donegal’s Starrett family crowned 2020 Quality Milk Award winners
Richard and Wendy Starrett from Lifford in County Donegal have won the overall prize in this year’s NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards, writes Jack Kennedy.
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Trioliet take wraps off new self-propelled diet feeder
Dutch manufacturer Trioliet has just taken the wraps off a new 14m3 single vertical auger self-propelled diet feeder. Peter Thomas Keaveney reports.
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Blaney Group completes phase one of new manufacturing facility
Antrim based implement and equipment manufacturer Blaney has just completed phase one of a new purpose built manufacturing facility.
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Futures fall but physical prices rise
This week sees prices go in different directions with physical prices strengthening while futures prices weaken.
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IFA Potato Market Report: harvest over 60% complete
Potato Market Report 27 October 2020
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