Paddocks

The Grass Week: improved weather and moods as stock go out

Some much-needed reprieve in the weather has been seen in the last few days, which has given farmers the opportunity to get stock out, some for the first time this spring.

GRASS & FEEDING 21 March 2026

The Grass Week: improved weather and moods as stock go out

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Grass+ Beef: tentative start of turn out

Grass+ Beef: tentative start of turn out

GRASS & FEEDING 4 March 2026

The Grass Week: wet weather continues to hamper grazing efforts

The Grass Week: wet weather continues to hamper grazing efforts

GRASS & FEEDING 21 February 2026

My Farming Week: James Patrick Ryan, Kilcolman, Feenagh, Co Limerick

My Farming Week: James Patrick Ryan, Kilcolman, Feenagh, Co Limerick

My Farming Week: James Patrick Ryan, Kilcolman, Feenagh, Co Limerick

NEWS 18 February 2026

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

Home Farm: rain ruins spraying plans

VIEWPOINTS 10 December 2025

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Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

Home Farm: Grass growth and slugs

All the wheat is now above ground with the tramlines becoming more visible by the day.

VIEWPOINTS 20 September 2025

A great year for grazing nears an end

A great year for grazing nears an end

Daire Cregg looks at the grass situation across the country as we enter into the last few weeks of grazing for 2025.

GRASS & FEEDING 20 September 2025

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

Home Farm: cattle back out by day

We are not quite finished all the sowing but with the forecast so good, we are expecting to get it finished and rolled within the next day or so.

VIEWPOINTS 20 September 2025

Beef management: lime, closing paddocks and silage testing

Beef management: lime, closing paddocks and silage testing

Martin Merrick details how now might be the ideal time for lime, how paddocks now need to be closed up ahead of spring grazing and silage testing for management of feed ahead of the winter months.

MANAGEMENT 20 September 2025

The Grass Week: closing up paddocks the name of the game

The Grass Week: closing up paddocks the name of the game

With the first week in October now past us, it’s time to look at closing up paddocks for spring 2026.

GRASS & FEEDING 20 September 2025

Grass+ Beef: growth and utilisation set to drop

Grass+ Beef: growth and utilisation set to drop

Shorter days are leading to falling growth rates, while the return of wetter weather is seeing dry matter and utilisation fall also.

GRASS & FEEDING 20 September 2025

The Grass Week: soil moisture deficits reach saturation for many

The Grass Week: soil moisture deficits reach saturation for many

After another wet week, all but the driest farms in the south and south east are struggling with wet soils.

GRASS & FEEDING 20 September 2025

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Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

Conal Moore an agri contractor and tillage framer from Ballygar Co Galway. “We do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.

Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers

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