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Focus
‘Breeding is a long-term game and we are aiming for a balanced bull’
Adam Woods
Adam Woods visits Gigginstown Farm in Westmeath to talk all things Aberdeen Angus with farm manager Joe O’Mahony.
9 April 2024 Markets
In pictures: Heery's heifers hit over €5,000 in Carrigallen
Adam Woods reports from Jim Heery’s special sale of weanling heifers in Carrigallen Mart last Saturday.
6 April 2024 Breeding & health
Heery hitting the high-end heifer market
Adam Woods visits a Cavan farmer aiming to breed high end heifers for a growing market.
Beef breeding 2024 ready to roll
Adam Woods previews what’s inside this week’s special beef breeding focus ahead of the busy 2024 breeding season.
3 April 2024 Breeding & health
Scanning autumn calving cows before turnout
If autumn-calving cows have yet to be scanned, it is a job worth carrying out before turnout.
26 March 2024 Management
SCEP issues remain big sticking point in ICBF index row
Adam Woods reports from last Tuesday’s ICBF stakeholders meeting where SCEP issues and cow weights were discussed.
28 February 2024 Breeding & health
Farmer Writes: sounds and smells of calving return
The smells and sounds of calving have made a return to Tommy Moyles' farm at Ardfield, Clonakilty, Cork. Most of his suckler herd will calve over the next few weeks.
21 February 2024 Farmer Writes
The end of the road for small-scale suckling
John Moran believes older farmers are being forced out of sucklers by the complexity of support schemes.
21 February 2024 News
Dairy cow kill increases by 81,598 head since 2019
The increase in dairy cull cow throughput is not surprising given growth in the national dairy herd in recent years and pressure on margins in 2023.
9 February 2024 News
Pedigree breeders participation in ICBF stakeholder forum in doubt
Adam Woods sits down to chat with Sean Sherman, chair of the pedigree breeder’s council and also board member of ICBF.
24 January 2024 Breeding & health
The ups and downs of building a suckler herd in US 'corn country'
Matt Rice runs 40 cow-calf pairs on his 2,100ac farm in Illinois, rotating them between paddocks across the holding. Claire Mc Cormack reports.
17 January 2024 News
On the changes to ICBF replacement index
"I believe ICBF has let down suckler farmers by focusing on emission reduction goals rather than high performance genetics that increase farmers output and profits." – Ned Greene, Co Laois
3 January 2024 Letters