Darren Carty
Livestock specialist
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Darren Carty is a livestock specialist in the Irish Farmers Journal specialising in the sheep and beef sectors. Areas focused on include technical features, grassland management, herd health, breeding and domestic and global market analysis. Darren is a committee member of the Irish Grassland Association and also sits on the management team of the Teagasc / Irish Farmers Journal and the Dairy Calf to Beef programme.
He holds an honours degree in Animal Science from University College Dublin. Previous to joining the farmers Journal he worked as a Teagasc adviser in Galway. He hails from a suckler and sheep farm in county Galway. Aside from farming, he has a keen interest in sports.
Factories are anxious for steers and heifers, with numbers starting to tighten, but are very slow to exceed a base of €3.75/kg for steers and €3.85/kg for heifers.
By Darren Carty on 23 October 2017
High levels of rainfall and difficult ground conditions have hit farmer appetite for store lambs.
By Darren Carty on 23 October 2017
Standout heifers sold particularly well at the special sale of heifers eligible for the Beef Data and Genomics programme but some plainer or beefy heifers were a challenging trade.
By Darren Carty on 23 October 2017
Teagasc budgets show the potential for farmers to utilise excess grass and generate a margin of €25 to €30 from finishing hill lambs.
By Darren Carty on 20 October 2017
This week, Darren Carty discusses handling lambs, clostridial vaccine, liver fluke and scanning early lambers.
By Darren Carty on 20 October 2017
This week, Darren Carty discusses handling lambs, clostridial vaccine, liver fluke and scanning early lambers.
By Darren Carty on 20 October 2017
Last week's kill rose by another 477 head on the back of higher cow, young bull and heifer throughput.
By Darren Carty on 19 October 2017
While prices have steadied somewhat, the sheep trade continues to be under pressure.
By Darren Carty on 19 October 2017
The trade appears to have steadied, but at a low level, with supplies holding strong.
By Darren Carty on 19 October 2017
This week, Darren Carty discusses handling lambs, clostridial vaccine, liver fluke and scanning early lambers.
By Darren Carty on 19 October 2017
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