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Dairy
Contraction continues with herd over 280,000 head lower on 1 March
Darren Carty
Numbers have reduced across all categories of livestock from suckler cows to dairy cows and beef cattle and dairy replacements.
2 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Farmer Writes: old cow for the hard road and calf for the bottle
The ruthlessness of nature revealed itself at the weekend as one of the more experienced campaigners in Tommy Moyles' suckler herd put herself first.
2 April 2025 Dealer
Star ratings a celestial headache
The distance between the breed societies and the ICBF could best be measured in light years, but there is an urgent need for the gap to be bridged.
Farmer Writes: I’m not losing any sleep over ICBF indices
Tommy Moyles looks at the ICBF stars and the abolishing of milk quotas.
19 March 2025 Farmer Writes
Calf birth registrations down by 46,000 head
In contrast to recent years, the reduction in births to date in 2025 is being driven by fewer births in dairy herds as opposed to suckler herds.
19 March 2025 News
Young Stock Podcast: Shaun Diver - the man behind Tullamore Farm
This week’s Young Stock Podcast features none other than Tullamore Farm manager Shaun Diver, who chats to Martin Merrick about his life before Tullamore and what has changed on the farms since 2018.
10 March 2025 Podcast
End of the suckling era on Duggan farm in Portlaw
The Teagasc spring grass walk on the Duggan family farm in Portlaw in Co Waterford.
9 March 2025 Breeding & health
A Farmer Writes: generational renewal a continuous issue
Suckler numbers continue to fall and there's no sign of that coming to an end in the near future.
5 March 2025 Farmer Writes
Is there a future farming marginal land?
Adam Woods takes a look at the plans on rewetting and what that means for small drystock farms in the north west of the country.
5 March 2025 Management
ICSA lacks confidence in ICBF and Teagasc over star rating system
ICSA suckler chair Jimmy Cosgrave said that the ICBF and Teagasc have failed to engage meaningfully with farmers on the issues arising from the current genetic evaluations.
19 February 2025 News
Why cattle breed societies voted no confidence in the board of ICBF
Nevan McKiernan speaks to the chair of the Pedigree Cattle Breeders Council of Ireland Seamus Nagle.
19 February 2025 Pedigree
Farmer Writes: avoiding the extremes of storm Éowyn
West Cork avoided the worst ravages of storm Éowyn, but it reminded Tommy Moyles of two other storms that made their mark in the area.
5 February 2025 Farmer Writes