Articles
A November grass update for sheep farmers
Grass10 Advisor, Nikki Kennedy is on this week’s OviCast to discuss key grazing management tips for the weeks ahead.
22 November 2025
Better cows and a more labour efficient system
Future Beef and Signpost Programme participant, Eamon McCarthy writes on a new infrastructure investment on farm that he hopes will bring labour savings, and the genetics of their cow herd – an area they’ve worked to improve.
22 November 2025
Can pig breeding help reduce tail biting?
Peadar Lawlor, Pig Development Department, discusses the challenge of tail biting in pigs and how emerging breeding strategies may offer part of the solution.
21 November 2025
Unlocking the genetic blueprint of Ireland’s native birch
Teagasc’s long-running birch research and the new BirchGen project are revealing how Ireland’s downy birch can be improved, conserved and better adapted for future forestry, Dheeraj Singh Rathore, Tomás Byrne and Stephen Byrne, Teagasc, tells us more.
21 November 2025
Myostatin: The benefits and drawbacks
Looking to breed more muscled cattle without compromising on calving ease? Then assessing the myostatin status of both the cows in your herd and the sires used will be a key task ahead of next season’s breeding season.
21 November 2025
Guide to cover crop termination: Leveraging frost and grazing
With more cover crops in the ground than ever before, many farmers now face the challenge of reducing heavy biomass ahead of spring drilling, Head of Crops Knowledge Transfer, Michael Hennessy discusses some of the options available for cover crop termination.
20 November 2025
Tillage Edge: The award-winning sustainable tillage farm
This week’s Tillage Edge podcast carries a feature from a recent instalment of the Signpost Series with Don Somers, a Wexford tillage farmer and the overall winner of the Teagasc FBD Environmental Sustainability Award 2025.
20 November 2025
Bats at Kildalton – nature on the farm and in the classroom
Kildalton College’s rich tapestry of landscapes and habitats, such as hedgerows, small woodlands and ponds, are well suited to Ireland’s bats, College Lecturer, Brian Clancy tells us more.
20 November 2025
The out block that started it all
Farming 125ha at Kilmurry, Tynagh, Loughrea, Co. Galway, Conor O’Brien milks a herd of 144 high EBI Holstein cows and carries a dairy-beef enterprise in partnership with his father Vincent and mother Mary.
19 November 2025
Winter feeding: Get your cows breeding earlier next year
The critical link between winter nutrition, cow condition and the relationship with fertility next year was laid bare to delegates at the Teagasc National Beef Conference, hosted in Athenry, Co. Galway on November 18, 2025.
19 November 2025