Beef 2022 Technology Villages

Environment -  ‘Signpost Farms’

• Pathways to carbon neutrality
• Improving water quality
• Managing biodiversity on your farm 

Grassland Demo 

• Grassland management & budgeting
• Clover and multi-species pastures
• Making quality silage 

Suckling Systems - ‘Future Beef Programme’

• Cow type and sire selection
• Calf health and welfare
• Derrypatrick and Newford suckler herds

Dairy-Beef Systems - ‘DairyBeef 500 Campaign’

• Improving calf quality
• Calf rearing and housing
• Grange dairy calf-to-beef system

Growing & Finishing Cattle

• Grass-based and indoor finishing strategies
• Reducing slaughter age of beef cattle
• Anthelmintic use and parasite control

Meat Quality

• Factors affecting meat quality
• ‘Grass-fed’ beef and PGI
• Quality-assured beef

Advisory, Education & Policy

• Pathways for a career in agriculture
• Succession and inheritance
• Implications of CAP reform for beef farms

Farming Lifestyle

• Health and safety on beef farms
• Health and wellbeing for farm families
• Achieving work-life balance