Arable
The View from Northern Ireland: Following a good autumn most winter cereal crops are well established with the exception of late...
Dairy
The View from Northern Ireland: Focus on feed rate not yield per cow. This was the key message from a dairy cow...
Agri-Business
Agriland does not like odd numbers – so on that basis alone, let’s wish a cheerful goodbye to 2013 and...
COMMENT: There is considerable interest in the use of total confinement and zero-grazing dairy systems. This interest has spiked in recent...
The View from Teagasc: The demise of the sugar beet crop led many farmers to move from crop rotation to cereal monoculture. Soil...
Top Stories This Week Co-op mergers key for dairy expansion – minister Strathroy applies for NDC membership Mart mergers on...
The View from Northern Ireland: Winter feeding and the efficiency with which a winter feed programme is managed has a major...
Other
The View from Northern Ireland: Taking productive land out of production goes against many farmers‘ interest in producing food. Many...
Environment
Teagasc is leading an EU-funded project GrassMargins, which aims to evaluate the suitability of marginal land for biomass production. Perennial...
Rural Life
The View from Bord Bia: The final episode of the Great Irish Bake Off aired on TV last week, achieving an...
The View from Teagasc: When Ireland joined the EU so started Teagasc’s longest running research project – the National Farm...
The View from Teagasc: The major challenge in Irish farming is to mobilise scarce land resources into productive and profitable...
The View from Teagasc: When cattle come off grass and are housed for the winter, they bring in with them...
World News
WORLD VIEW: New Zealand milk production in 2014 is expected to rebound from the drought depressed levels of 2013 to...
COMMENT: As we go into November, spring calving herds are now beginning to dry off cows and days at grass...
Top Stories This Week All things machinery Huge Irish presence set for Agritechnica All things community: Farmers are the heart of...
The View from Teagasc: Sexed semen is used on dairy cows to increase the number of dairy heifer calves born, and results...
Beef
Previous research at Teagasc Grange on the optimum weanling winter growth rate for steers and heifers destined to return to pasture for a...
