Beef
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
What's happening at the ICBF Tully Research Centre?
The Tully test centre is the national commercial progeny test centre, located at the edge of Kildare town. In this article, Catherine Egan, Teagasc Beef Specialist, outlines the work being carried out there.
14 June 2023
Rising gross output fails to lift cattle rearing income in 2022
Although gross output levels increased by 6% on cattle rearing farms in 2022, in part due to improved prices for young stock, the average Family Farm Income declined by 13% to €9,408 on these farms.
14 June 2023
Increase in farm incomes largely confined to dairy and tillage farms in 2022
The results of a new report indicate that the year 2022 produced a mixed outcome for income levels across farm systems in Ireland.
12 June 2023
Safety with bulls during breeding
Health and Safety Authority (HSA) statistics show that from 2012 to 2021 bulls were the cause of 16% of farm workplace deaths.
11 June 2023
Grange Maternal Herd update: 88% submitted for AI in the first 21 days of breeding
The Teagasc Grange Maternal Herd consists of 90 cows made up of Limousin x Simmental or Simmental x Limousin cows. The herd calves from the first week of February to the end of April.
10 June 2023