silage quality

Dairy Management: protecting grass and checking winter feed levels

Brendan Horan writes about the necessity to keep grass for spring, checking winter feed levels and Dairy Day 2026.

MANAGEMENT 11 November 2026

Dairy Management: protecting grass and checking winter feed levels

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Grass growth takes most farmers out of fodder deficit

Grass growth takes most farmers out of fodder deficit

FEED 7 October 2026

Balancing silage quality and concentrates for optimum growth

Balancing silage quality and concentrates for optimum growth

FEED 7 October 2026

Dutch firm's clever silage grab designed to leave pit face 'like it was shaven'

Dutch firm's clever silage grab designed to leave pit face 'like it was shaven'

Dutch firm's clever silage grab designed to leave pit face 'like it was shaven'

FARM MACHINERY 30 September 2026

Home Farm: beans and late silage

Home Farm: beans and late silage

Home Farm: beans and late silage

VIEWPOINTS 16 September 2026

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Drought forces change in finishing plans on Tipperary dairy-beef farm

Drought forces change in finishing plans on Tipperary dairy-beef farm

130 cattle have been transferred on to a finishing diet of high-quality silage and 6.5kg concentrates

MANAGEMENT 29 July 2026

What exactly is contributing to high-quality silage in Kilkenny

What exactly is contributing to high-quality silage in Kilkenny

For dairy farmers Leslie and Sam Caldbeck, producing high-quality silage is central to how their Kilkenny farm performs.

ADVERTISERS' ANOUNCEMENTS 10 April 2026

Making silage, is the loader properly appreciated?

Making silage, is the loader properly appreciated?

Fergal O’Sullivan investigates all things pit related, from loader size, weight, tyres and engine power to explore how they influence the overall silage fermentation process.

FARM MACHINERY 1 April 2026

Beef Management: reseeding, slurry application and supplementing

Beef Management: reseeding, slurry application and supplementing

Where the period from calving to turnout is short, cow body condition is good and silage quality is ok then there is generally little need to supplement.

MANAGEMENT 25 March 2026

Weather disrupting spring grazing plans

Weather disrupting spring grazing plans

Low grass growth rates, an inability to get fertiliser applied and poor grass utilisation are all contributing to a challenging situation and forcing farmers to tweak grazing plans

MANAGEMENT 18 March 2026

Farmer Writes: calving has kicked off

Farmer Writes: calving has kicked off

We are milking once a day at the moment, but with numbers building we’ll be going back to twice-a-day milking later this week.

FARMER WRITES 4 February 2026

Beef Management: weighing weanlings, scour vaccines and lice

Beef Management: weighing weanlings, scour vaccines and lice

Martin Merrick outlines some management tasks regarding weanling weights, vaccines and live control that will need to be done on farms in the next week or so.

MANAGEMENT 30 December 2025

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National Dairy Conference: how can Irish dairy farming be made more resilient?

This year has presented numerous challenges to dairy farming including reduced milk prices, summer drought conditions in many areas, and ongoing pressures of production costs and labour availability.

National Dairy Conference: how can Irish dairy farming be made more resilient?

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