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This week’s BETTER farm paper piece will feature Sean Hayes from Co Clare.
Contractors call for extension to hedge-cutting season
Opinion: Newbridge protest has farmers going round in circles
EU’s capacity to export beef hit by cattle shortage
Concern over dumped calf carcases in Clare
Calf numbers surge above usual levels at marts
Ciarán Lenehan visited Carlow BETTER farmer Tom Bolger, who has embraced technology to improve bottom line and reduce labour.
Farmers Journal looks at research into the affects of exercise in young bulls.
Ciarán Lenehan spent time in Alberta, the beef heartland of Canada, last year and paid a visit to a large scale cattle feeding operation
Tom Bolger represents Carlow in the BETTER farm beef programme and talked to Ciarán Lenehan about calving and breeding 2018.
Ciarán Lenehan gets a tour of the Miratorg beef operation in Russia, a 200,000-cow fully integrated beef operation with big ambitions.
Ciarán Lenehan and Adam Woods asked farmers around the country what their plans are for first-cut silage and what they're doing to rebuild stocks.
Grass growth hit 60kg DM/ha/day this week, on average, writes Ciarán Lenehan.
Raising healthy calves on the McCloy-Peoples’ Farm in Donegal Just outside Ramelton, Co Donegal, Bert McCloy and his son-in-law Jason Peoples run a busy dairy farm milking around 200 cows.
