Creep feeding

Sheep management: creep feeding and potential hogget price deductions

Creep feeding can have a role to play in some production systems but it should not be used to simply compensate for poor grass management

MANAGEMENT 6 May 2026

Sheep management: creep feeding and potential hogget price deductions

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Contending with ongoing weather challenges

Contending with ongoing weather challenges

GRASS & FEEDING 8 April 2026

Sheep Management: artificially rearing lambs, creep feeding and milk lambs

Sheep Management: artificially rearing lambs, creep feeding and milk lambs

MANAGEMENT 18 March 2026

Tidy twenty suckler set up in north Longford

Tidy twenty suckler set up in north Longford

Tidy twenty suckler set up in north Longford

BREEDING & HEALTH 10 September 2025

Big return from creep-feeding weanlings

Big return from creep-feeding weanlings

Big return from creep-feeding weanlings

BUILDINGS 3 September 2025

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Achieving targets with healthy animals this autumn

Achieving targets with healthy animals this autumn

Martin Merrick details some of the key take home messages one of the two summer mart series hosted in Castleisland and Ballinasloe marts last week.

ANIMAL HEALTH 1 January 1970

New suckler scheme – readers' questions answered

New suckler scheme – readers' questions answered

Interest in the National Suckler Beef Welfare Scheme appears to be strong, underpinned by a higher potential payment of €75 on a maximum of 45 calves.

NEWS 1 January 1970

Beef Management: grass supplies, weaning and scanning spring calvers

Beef Management: grass supplies, weaning and scanning spring calvers

Martin Merrick talks about autumn grassland management, weaning of calves and scanning spring calvers to identify where things went right or wrong.

MANAGEMENT 1 January 1970

Opening of €75/calf beef welfare scheme imminent

Opening of €75/calf beef welfare scheme imminent

The scheme is expected to open over the next week, with payment based on up to 45 calves and completion of up to three tasks.

NEWS 1 January 1970

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New Zealand dairy tech open day to take place on Laois farm

Irish dairy farmers will have the opportunity to see the latest technologies from New Zealand at an on-farm open day at Camcloon Dairy, Ballyfin, Co Laois, on Tuesday 19 May 2026 from 10am.

New Zealand dairy tech open day to take place on Laois farm