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Dairy Management: picking bulls and Farm Alert launch

Aidan Brennan says that farmers should be picking bulls for next season before calving gets busy.

MANAGEMENT 3 December 2025

Dairy Management: picking bulls and Farm Alert launch

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Sheep management: breeding progress, genotyped rams and weather management

Sheep management: breeding progress, genotyped rams and weather management

MANAGEMENT 12 November 2025

Dairy Management: grazing conditions getting tricky

Dairy Management: grazing conditions getting tricky

MANAGEMENT 5 November 2025

Dairy Management: housing and drying off

Dairy Management: housing and drying off

Dairy Management: housing and drying off

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Focus on breeding to drive output in Carlow

Focus on breeding to drive output in Carlow

Focus on breeding to drive output in Carlow

MANAGEMENT 22 October 2025

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Dairy Management: dealing with lameness, hedge-cutting and soil sampling

Dairy Management: dealing with lameness, hedge-cutting and soil sampling

Changes have been made to the rules around soil sampling, with land parcel identification system codes now required writes Aidan Brennan.

MANAGEMENT 19 March 2025

Attention to detail the key to targets in Glentraigue

Attention to detail the key to targets in Glentraigue

Martin Joe Kerrigan is doing the simple things right and seeing the rewards for it on his organic hill farm, writes Martin Merrick.

BREEDING & HEALTH 19 March 2025

A recipe for improved flock performance

A recipe for improved flock performance

Galway farmer Michael Forde is bucking the national trend having increased ewe numbers while striving to improve the average performance of his mid-season lambing flock

MANAGEMENT 19 March 2025

Sheep Management: ram effect, purchasing rams, blowfly strike and SWS BCS

Sheep Management: ram effect, purchasing rams, blowfly strike and SWS BCS

For the ram effect to work successfully ewes must be out of sight and smell of rams for at least a month pre-mating.

MANAGEMENT 19 March 2025

Sheep Management: culling ewes post-weaning and the store lamb trade

Sheep Management: culling ewes post-weaning and the store lamb trade

Ewes with large pendulous udders, large teats etc end up consuming significant time around lambing time

MARKETS 19 March 2025

Sheep Management: care when applying pour-on

Sheep Management: care when applying pour-on

The manner in which pour-on is applied will have a marked influence on the level of cover achieved

MANAGEMENT 19 March 2025

Spring feeding Q&A with Teagasc experts

Spring feeding Q&A with Teagasc experts

There is renewed interest in feeding cows well this spring, Teagasc experts Aisling Claffey and Joe Patton look at the requirements for cows this spring and at peak

GRASS & FEEDING 19 March 2025

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