Beef

Getting your Grazing Back on Track

With thundery showers & heavy rainfall throughout the country soil moisture deficits have disappeared. Grass growth rates have increased. It is important at this stage of the grazing season to keep quality in the sward and use this opportunity to remove paddocks with poor grass quality.
22 July 2023

Tracking the changes of carcass traits in beef animals

Shauna Mulhall, Teagasc Moorepark, discusses research work which examined data from approximately 23 million animals born between 1986 and 2020 to track the changes in carcass traits of beef and dairy animals.
20 July 2023

Teagasc Fodder Survey July 2023

National situation on target, but 15% of farms have deficits to make-up with second cuts
19 July 2023

All you need to know about the new Signpost Advisory Programme

Stan Lalor, Teagasc Director of Knowledge Transfer, joins Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast, with an update on the recent launch of the Signpost Advisory Programme and details on how you can take part.
19 July 2023

Low Stress Movement of Animals with Miriam Parker

In this video Miriam Parker, Livestockwise, discusses the instinctive six strategies for cattle survival and how they can be used to encourage cattle to do what we want in a handling scenario.
19 July 2023

6 key steps to deal with wet conditions on beef farms

The early summer months brought near drought conditions for much of the country. Since mid-June, however, there has been a significant amount of rain - especially in some southern, northern and western areas. Teagasc Drystock Specialist Alan Dillon has some advice if your farm is impacted.
19 July 2023

Sheep enterprise working well with suckler herd for Olivia Hynes

“The summer months are all about getting lambs ready for sale and getting the ewe flock right for mating”
17 July 2023

Rumen microbiome as a predictor of methane output

Stuart Kirwan, Paul Smith and Sinéad Waters report on microbiome analysis to investigate methane production in beef cattle in an effort to reduce methane gas emissions by 2030.
15 July 2023

The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef

Ruaraidh Petre, Executive Director, Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, joins Catherine Egan on this week’s episode of the Beef Edge podcast.
12 July 2023

Future Beef Farmer Trevor Boland’s 10 point autumn calving plan

Trevor Boland farms in partnership with his father Joseph in Dromard, Co. Sligo. Along with farming, which centres on a herd of 50 autumn-calving cows, he also works full time as an accountant with IFAC.
12 July 2023

Diary Date: DairyBeef 500 walk out west

A major DairyBeef 500 farm walk will take place on the farm on Jarlath and Austin Ruane, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, later this week.
10 July 2023

Dosing advice to slow the build-up of resistance

There is a huge issue around the use of not only antibiotics but also anthelmintics on farms in Ireland and around the world. Martina Harrington, Teagasc Beef Specialist, explains that the main concern is the rate at which resistance to these products is building.
05 July 2023

Grassland management and an update from the DairyBeef 500 Campaign

Tommy Cox, Teagasc DairyBeef 500 advisor, joins Catherine Egan on this week's Beef Edge Podcast with an update on the programme.
05 July 2023

Counting down to the end of breeding with Future Beef Farmer John Barry

Farming in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, the breeding season commenced on John Barry’s farm on April 29th and will continue until mid-July. Aisling Molloy, Future Beef Programme Advisor to the farm, provides an update on its progress.
05 July 2023

Work Organisation for Farmer Health and Safety video launched

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for Farm Safety, Martin Heydon T.D. today, Tuesday, 4th July, launched a ‘Work Organisation for Farmer Health and Safety’ video at the Moorepark Dairy Open Day in Fermoy, Co. Cork.
04 July 2023

Diary date: Top grassland beef farmer to host walk

Michael McGuigan, the Drystock and Innovation Grassland Farmer of the Year 2022, will host a farm walk later this week, where the topics of grassland and animal performance, clover and nutrient management, and grazing infrastructure and future improvements will be discussed.
03 July 2023

SCEP participants - don’t forget about the Bord Bia requirement

The new Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) requires that all applicants become certified members of Bord Bia’s Sustainable Beef and Lamb Assurance Scheme (SBLAS). However, many farmers who have applied for SCEP have yet to apply to join SBLAS.
02 July 2023

Teagasc appoint new Cattle Specialist

Teagasc has appointed a new Cattle Specialist, Niall Kerins, who will be based in Teagasc Moorepark and will cover the south west of the country. Niall Kerins is from a drystock farming background in Co. Kerry.
29 June 2023

What impact will the National Genotyping Programme have on the beef industry?

Gearóid Slattery from ICBF joins Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the National Genotyping Programme.
28 June 2023

When are you going to 'pull your bull'?

The breeding season for spring-calving herds is now into its final weeks on most suckler farms. Aisling Molloy, Future Beef Programme Advisor, provides a refresher on the breeding targets for suckler herds and outlines how the breeding season progressed for programme farmers.
28 June 2023

Your ACRES Plan

Many of the 46,000 farmers who applied for ACRES last November had their applications approved in late March. Once you were approved you were effectively a scheme participant since the 1st of January and the contracted period will run for 5 years until the 31st of December 2027.
26 June 2023

John Pringle Farm Update - Grassland, Clover, Breeding & Performance

John farms with his wife Linda, daughter Lucy and sons William and Scott. He works full-time on the farm in Kilacloran, Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. Here he gives us his farm update for May and June.
26 June 2023

Be vigilant of lungworm

After a sustained dry period, recent rainfall may have created the perfect conditions for lungworm to develop.
26 June 2023

DairyBeef 500 walks commence next week

Aiming to promote and demonstrate dairy-beef systems, which are socially, environmentally and financially sustainable, the DairyBeef 500 Campaign will host a series of farm walks this year.
23 June 2023

Strategies for grassland management in the coming weeks

DairyBeef 500 Manager, Alan Dillon joins Catherine Egan on this week’s episode of the Beef Edge podcast.
21 June 2023

Red clover: Availing of the benefits on beef farms

As chemical fertiliser prices reached new highs last year, many beef farmers looked at ways of reducing the amount of fertiliser that they applied on their farms. In this article, DairyBeef 500 Advisor Fergal Maguire highlights the benefits of red clover.
21 June 2023

Research update: Forage or concentrate?

Researchers from Teagasc Grange Research Centre report on the effect of forage or concentrate beef production systems on farm profit, carbon footprint, land use and meat nutritional value.
18 June 2023

Early life health of breeding bulls

Across both beef and dairy sectors, genomic selection has increased the rate at which we can select young bulls that have superior genetics. High demand from farmers, for these high genetic merit, first-season bulls means that there is a high demand for their semen at a young age.
17 June 2023

An update and insights from the ICBF Tully Test Performance Centre

Niall Kilrane from the ICBF Tully Test Performance Centre, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an update from the research centre, which is the national commercial progeny test centre located on the edge of Kildare town.
14 June 2023

Higher cattle prices boost beef finisher farm incomes in 2022

Improvements in finished cattle prices had a positive impact on the levels of income generated on ‘cattle other’ farms – typically cattle finishing farms – as reported in the National Farm Survey 2022 report, which was published earlier this week.
14 June 2023