Lamb performance

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

The performance of lambs being finished outdoors is poor; higher performance attainable where lambs can be finished indoors.

MANAGEMENT 17 December 2025

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

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Investigating the performance of ewes and lambs on upland grazing

Investigating the performance of ewes and lambs on upland grazing

NEWS 5 November 2025

Intensively finishing lambs – what to consider?

Intensively finishing lambs – what to consider?

WINTER INDOOR MANAGEMENT 27 October 2025

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

Sheep Management: keeping on top of deadlines

Sheep Management: keeping on top of deadlines

Sheep Management: keeping on top of deadlines

MANAGEMENT 8 October 2025

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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 4 June 2025

Teagasc store lamb finishing calculator update

Teagasc store lamb finishing calculator update

The calculator is a useful resource in helping farmers purchasing store lambs to complete finishing budgets and is equally useful for farmers weighing up whether to sell or finish lambs.

MARKETS 4 June 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 4 June 2025

Farm Tech Talk: easy-calving sucklers, derogation shock and Tullamore Farm

Farm Tech Talk: easy-calving sucklers, derogation shock and Tullamore Farm

This week's chat brings you an overview of an easy-calving suckler herd up north, the new shock to hit Ireland's bid for another derogation and a lamb performance update from Tullamore Farm.

NEWS 4 June 2025

Finishing organic hill lambs proving challenging

Finishing organic hill lambs proving challenging

The preliminary results from a study evaluating finishing systems for organic lambs were presented in the organic village at Sheep 2025

GRASS & FEEDING 4 June 2025

Putting multispecies swards to the test in Sligo

Putting multispecies swards to the test in Sligo

The father-and-son partnership of Philip and Jonathan Higgins run 200 ewes and 340 Jersey heifers on 90ha with a firm focus on optimising output from a forage-based diet.

MANAGEMENT 4 June 2025

Tullamore Farm: arrival of rain revs up grass growth and weight gains

Tullamore Farm: arrival of rain revs up grass growth and weight gains

Adam Woods has the latest on what’s been happening on Tullamore Farm this week.

TULLAMORE FARM 4 June 2025

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Maria Walsh MEP: bringing Irish farmers into the heart of Europe

Maria Walsh is a Fine Gael MEP for Midlands–North West and a full member of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee. She is a member of the EPP Group in the Parliament.

Maria Walsh MEP: bringing Irish farmers into the heart of Europe

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