Stocking rate

Editorial: derogation goalposts float sideways again

The Department must publish the latest economic assessment of the cost of the derogation loss.

VIEWPOINTS 9 July 2025

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Teagasc launches new contract rearing guidelines booklet

Teagasc launches new contract rearing guidelines booklet

NEWS 8 July 2025

Editorial: Moorepark open day – opportunity and solutions to milk on

Editorial: Moorepark open day – opportunity and solutions to milk on

VIEWPOINTS 2 July 2025

Dairy Management: good opportunity for more reseeding

Dairy Management: good opportunity for more reseeding

Dairy Management: good opportunity for more reseeding

MANAGEMENT 30 June 2025

Farm finance in-brief: AMS notifications issued for artificial surfaces

Farm finance in-brief: AMS notifications issued for artificial surfaces

Farm finance in-brief: AMS notifications issued for artificial surfaces

SCHEMES 25 June 2025

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Tighter conditions for availing of reduced storage capacity

Tighter conditions for availing of reduced storage capacity

From 1 January 2025, holdings wishing to avail of reduced storage capacity by out-wintering livestock must not exceed a grassland stocking rate of 100kg of organic nitrogen per hectare

NITRATES 21 May 2025

New slurry spreading rules for 15,000 farmers

New slurry spreading rules for 15,000 farmers

Farmers with a grassland stocking rate of between 100kg/ha and 129kg/ha organic nitrogen are obliged to spread slurry using low emission spreading equipment from 2025 onwards.

NITRATES 21 May 2025

Taking things to the next level in Tipperary

Taking things to the next level in Tipperary

Adam Woods reports from the Irish Grassland Association beef farm walk on Tim Meagher’s farm in Tipperary last week

GRASS & FEEDING 21 May 2025

Four days to record slurry exports

Four days to record slurry exports

The tight timeframe to record movements is aimed at eliminating so-called paper movements of organic nutrients for stocking rate purposes.

NITRATES 21 May 2025

Fewer cows streamline Tipp operation

Fewer cows streamline Tipp operation

Daire Cregg reports from the Tegasc/Dairygold joint programme farm walk on the farm of Mark Lonergan in Rosegreen, Co Tipperary.

NEWS 21 May 2025

Two weeks to satisfy minimum stocking rate

Two weeks to satisfy minimum stocking rate

For farmers not currently satisfying the minimum stocking rate of 0.1LU per eligible forage hectare they have less than two weeks to do so and be in a position to meet the 28 week retention period

SCHEMES 21 May 2025

Editorial: Stocking rates confirmed at last

Editorial: Stocking rates confirmed at last

A real-time tool to review and predict organic nitrogen levels (stocking rate) on farm is badly needed.

VIEWPOINTS 21 May 2025

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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

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