Lamb performance

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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Nematodirus egg hatching has already peaked

Nematodirus egg hatching has already peaked

BREEDING & HEALTH 15 April 2026

Q&A: New sheep evaluations

Q&A: New sheep evaluations

LAMBING 4 February 2026

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

MANAGEMENT 17 December 2025

Investigating the performance of ewes and lambs on upland grazing

Investigating the performance of ewes and lambs on upland grazing

Investigating the performance of ewes and lambs on upland grazing

NEWS 5 November 2025

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Intensively finishing lambs – what to consider?

Intensively finishing lambs – what to consider?

The margin between purchase cost and finishing value is currently tight and, as such, achieving high levels of lamb performance is essential to maximise potential returns.

WINTER INDOOR MANAGEMENT 11 July 2025

Focus on breeding to drive output in Carlow

Focus on breeding to drive output in Carlow

Teagasc BETTER farm sheep programme participant Eddie Gavin has implemented a defined breeding policy and closed his breeding flock except for purchasing rams

MANAGEMENT 11 July 2025

Sheep Management: keeping on top of deadlines

Sheep Management: keeping on top of deadlines

A number of deadlines are upon farmers to complete tasks in the sheep welfare scheme while closing stocks of fertiliser must be declared by 15 October 2025.

MANAGEMENT 11 July 2025

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 2025

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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

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