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Home Farm: rain postpones silage and paperwork looms

On top of all this, we are preparing for a full Bord Bia quality assurance audit.

VIEWPOINTS 10 June 2026

Home Farm: rain postpones silage and paperwork looms

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Home Farm: meat factory responses

Home Farm: meat factory responses

VIEWPOINTS 3 June 2026

Home Farm: missing silage weather and Bord Bia levies in focus

Home Farm: missing silage weather and Bord Bia levies in focus

VIEWPOINTS 27 May 2026

Home Farm: another week, another drop in the beef price

Home Farm: another week, another drop in the beef price

Home Farm: another week, another drop in the beef price

VIEWPOINTS 20 May 2026

Home Farm: clear of TB, but lacking in rain

Home Farm: clear of TB, but lacking in rain

Home Farm: clear of TB, but lacking in rain

VIEWPOINTS 13 May 2026

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Home Farm: Catching up during dry spell

Home Farm: Catching up during dry spell

Out in the fields, a neighbour with a high clearance, self-propelled sprayer did our oilseed rape for scleritinia.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

Home Farm: Choice of nitrogen

Home Farm: Choice of nitrogen

We had sown the new grass last September – later than ideal – but it took well and was a good dense, highly-digestible sward.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

Home Farm: ground conditions improve

Home Farm: ground conditions improve

We ended up finishing the buying season by buying cattle that won’t be ready until well into 2027.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

Home Farm: catching up during a busy week

Home Farm: catching up during a busy week

We are giving the store cattle a fresh paddock every day, and are concentrating on the land that we intend to close up this week for first-cut silage.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

Home Farm: manifesting better weather

Home Farm: manifesting better weather

With a terrible forecast for the Easter weekend, we decided we would rehouse everything.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

Home Farm: snatching opportunities

Home Farm: snatching opportunities

The rain washed in the nitrogen and almost overnight, the unhealthy yellowing of the winter barley was replaced with a welcome green sheen.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

Home Farm: dry days bring progress

Home Farm: dry days bring progress

We let the light cattle out by day onto paddocks of both new and permanent grass, again with minimal damage.

VIEWPOINTS 25 March 2026

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National Dairy Council bridging the urban-rural divide through school farm visit

Kildare dairy farmer welcomed students as part of a National Dairy Council initiative, which saw 1,500 pupils across Ireland visit working dairy farms during May.

National Dairy Council bridging the urban-rural divide through school farm visit

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