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Beef
Beef management notes: slurry, fertiliser and cattle grading
Adam Woods
Adam Woods takes a look at some tips and advice for drystock farms in this week's beef management notes.
22 January 2025 Dealer
How long can high prices last?
While current cattle and sheep prices are exactly what is needed to provide a decent income for drystock farmers, can they be sustained?
7 January 2025 News
ICSA demands Minister to rethink dribble bar grant aid under TAMS
Many farmers with smaller tractors, heavier soils or hilly farms simply cannot operate a trailing shoe because of its weight and the ground conditions, ICSA president Seán McNamara has said.
Watch: sowing multispecies swards in Laois
Earlier this year, Footprint Farmer Andrew Mulhare trialled multispecies swards on his Laois drystock farm for the first time.
26 December 2024 Footprint Farmers
Seán McNamara elected to lead ICSA for second term
The Westmeath farmer was reelected president of the drystock farmers’ association on Wednesday evening.
18 December 2024 News
Pneumonia outbreaks, SCEP training, minerals and mart roadshows
Adam Woods takes a look at pneumonia outbreaks, pre calving minerals, and the next dates in the Irish Farmers Journal suckler marts roadshow.
6 November 2024 Management
Set in stone: 444m stone wall repaired by Galway farmer
Martin Merrick caught up with Pat Lynch, who earlier this year completed the mammoth task of rebuilding 444m of a stone wall solo.
30 October 2024 Buildings
More organic beef finishing farms needed to prevent leakage - Teagasc
Economist with Teagasc Kevin Kilcline told Friday morning's Signpost webinar that the lack of organic beef finishing farms is leading to weanlings and stores being sold conventionally.
18 October 2024 News
New dairy facility given the green light at Mountbellow College
The new 1,279 sqm dairy building project has been developed by MAC in association with its partners Atlantic Technological University (ATU) and Teagasc.
23 September 2024 News
Anaerobic digestion: gearing up for phase two in Northern Ireland
Having already established an AD sector, Northern Ireland is now firmly focused on the next stage of development: creating a biomethane industry.
11 September 2024 Northern Ireland
Agri jobs: farm assistants required on pig farm in Limerick
A variety of enterprises are looking to recruit full time staff including a pig farm, a dairy farm, a drystock farm and an accountant manager with experience in the veterinary or agricultural sector.
24 August 2024 News