Beef farming
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Coronavirus Level 5: how marts will work
ICOS, the main body representing the marts, has issued guidance to mart managers and farmers as to how marts will operate during Level 5 lockdown.
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Clipping cattle at housing time
Declan Marren looks at the benefits of clipping cattle after housing for the winter period.
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Thrive: planning the last few weeks at grass
As grass growth declines and ground conditions deteriorate, grass utilisation on many farms is starting to suffer.
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Grass+ Beef: end of grazing season in sight for most farms
Beef farms across the country have started to house cattle in many cases, with younger or lighter cattle remaining at grass where possible.
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Thrive: dairy calf to beef weekly roundup
Declan Marren outlines what has been happening this week on the Thrive dairy calf to beef demonstration farm in Cashel, Co Tipperary.
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In pictures: bullocks in demand in Tuam
A large entry of bullocks for Monday's sale in Tuam saw good appetite for quality stock, while heifers were slightly easier on the day.
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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
Co Down farmer Derek Robinson has been forced to feed meal during drought conditions.
As we move into June yearling cattle have now been at grass for 11 weeks. Grass supply remains good on the farm however the dry conditions mean keeping quality grass ahead of stock is a challenge.
Surplus grass on the grazing block is being taken out as bales silage this year.
BETTER Farm NI: Harvesting first-cut silage in Co Derry. For more info, see this week’s Irish Farmers Journal.
Adam Woods checks in with Shaun Diver about what has been happening on Tullamore farm this week
Check out William Jones’s story, a north Co Longford suckler farmer who is increasing numbers on his farm in Aughnacliffe.
Watch Adam Woods and Shaun Diver go through some of the cows on Tullamore farm and hear about their choices for sure selection.
With the herd is now back out on grass, beef editor Adam Wood talks with farm manager Shaun Diver about what's been happening on Tullamore Farm and what he is doing to manage grass.
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On the road to the future of farming with technology steering the way
A growing global population is adding an ever-increasing pressure on to the world’s agriculture industry as it must produce more and faster, all the while with less space, less time and conditions.
CalfChat opinion divided on pros and cons of automatic v manual calf feeding
Farmer opinion is divided on whether automatic or manual feeding is better for calf rearing, with many rearers believing that the management of a system is more important than the method used.
Use of antibiotics at dry off: a changing landscape
The blanket use of antibiotic dry cow therapy (ADCT) will no longer be the norm on Irish dairy farms, from January 2022, due to changes in EU regulations.