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Farm Tech Talk: beef prices, schemes round up and feeding dairy cows
Jack Kennedy
This week's Farm Tech Talk hears of beef price trends, important scheme deadlines and Bank of Ireland's views on finance in 2025.
2 May 2025 News
Farm Tech Talk: what to know about schemes and dairy processors
On this week's episode of Farm Tech Talk, we chat to Darren Carty about the latest schemes updates and Lorcan Roche Kelly shares the latest from dairy companies.
23 April 2025 News
Actions confirmed for National Beef Welfare Scheme
Mandatory meal feeding of calves pre- and post-weaning remains the mandatory core action, while vaccination returns as an optional action and is joined by silage testing and faecal egg testing.
Mid-August opening for National Beef Welfare Scheme
The scheme will offer farmers an opportunity to draw down a support payment of €75 per eligible cow/calf up to a maximum of 45 cows.
18 April 2025 News
51,373 BISS applications submitted to date
The rate of applications being submitted is expected to ramp up considerably over the next week to 10 days with over 70,000 applications still to be submitted.
16 April 2025 Schemes
Farm Tech Talk: SCEP, clover and milk processors
On the agenda this week, we chat about various farm schemes and look at the future finances of some major milk processors.
11 April 2025 News
New selection process for actions in sheep welfare scheme
Participating farmers must select two actions from a category A listing with the third action from a category B listing being optional, writes Darren Carty.
2 April 2025 News
€20/calf dairy-beef weighing scheme returns
The scheme offers farmers a payment of €20 per eligible calf up to a maximum of 50 calves in return for recording and submitting weights to ICBF
26 March 2025 News
ACRES rare breeds – registered offspring must be produced by end of year three
Participants who selected the rare breeds action must produce at least one offspring that is registered with the relevant breed society.
14 March 2025 Schemes
Proposed actions for beef and sheep schemes revealed
The schemes will continue in a similar format as in 2024 with new actions added for farmers to draw down a higher payment.
26 February 2025 News
No change in livestock unit values
Proposals to change nutrient excretion rates under nitrates will not have any effect on livestock unit values under area-based schemes.
26 February 2025 Schemes
Revealed: the proposals in the €13/ewe National Sheep Welfare Scheme
There is a continuation of actions in the 2024 scheme while another action has been added to unlock the €5/ewe higher payment.
21 February 2025 News