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Tullamore Farm: first lambs drafted as grass growth surges

Tullamore Farm manager Shaun Diver gives an insight into the slaughter performance of the first draft of 2025-born lambs and discusses what else is happening on the farm this week.

TULLAMORE FARM 27 June 2025

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Almost 500 cattle killed by pneumonia per year

Almost 500 cattle killed by pneumonia per year

NEWS 21 May 2025

Top five summer health tips for sucklers

Top five summer health tips for sucklers

ANIMAL HEALTH 21 May 2025

Irish Farmers Journal suckler roadshow comes to Clare

Irish Farmers Journal suckler roadshow comes to Clare

Irish Farmers Journal suckler roadshow comes to Clare

MANAGEMENT 13 November 2024

Lungworm issues and suckler mart roadshow dates

Lungworm issues and suckler mart roadshow dates

Lungworm issues and suckler mart roadshow dates

MANAGEMENT 30 October 2024

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Addressing parasite burdens in youngstock

Addressing parasite burdens in youngstock

With a challenging summer, parasite burdens must be kept to a minimum as stock begin to head indoors to prevent a serious falloff in liveweight gain. Martin Merrick reports.

ANIMAL HEALTH 1 January 1970

Beef Management: buying weanlings, dehorning and Bluetongue threat

Beef Management: buying weanlings, dehorning and Bluetongue threat

Adam Woods takes a look at buying in weanlings, dehorning autumn born calves, lungworm issues and looking out for Bluetongue.

MANAGEMENT 1 January 1970

Beef Management : Slurry dates, autumn calving and reseed management

Beef Management : Slurry dates, autumn calving and reseed management

In this week's Beef Management we take a look at slurry spreading, dosing weanlings, managing reseeds and autumn calving cows.

MANAGEMENT 1 January 1970

Preventing pneumonia at weaning time

Preventing pneumonia at weaning time

Adam Woods looks at measures to prevent health problems when weaning suckler calves.

BREEDING & HEALTH 1 January 1970

Five cattle management tasks for late August

Five cattle management tasks for late August

Outlined are five management tasks to carry out on suckler farms going into late August.

MANAGEMENT 1 January 1970

Be alert for lungworm in young cattle

Be alert for lungworm in young cattle

Warmer temperatures will see worm burdens rapidly increasing on grazing swards, putting young cattle at higher risk of respiratory problems caused by lungworm.

MANAGEMENT 1 January 1970

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Netherlands a key market for Irish exports

Phelim O’Neill talks to Laura Crowley, who heads the Bord Bia office in the Netherlands and has lived in the country for 20 years, to find out why and how the Dutch market matters for Irish farmers.

Netherlands a key market for Irish exports