Dairy
Dairy advice: It’s time to complete your spring rotation planner
Now’s the time to set your farm up for the grazing season ahead with a spring rotation planner (SRP). The...
Dairy
Now’s the time to set your farm up for the grazing season ahead with a spring rotation planner (SRP). The...
Dairy
The dairy herd at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), fulfills two main roles – student training...
Grass
Farmers are being encouraged to consider how clover swards could save them money as the Covid-19 pandemic puts many farm businesses...
Grass
With parched fields now a common sight across the countryside, extremely dry weather over the past two months is starting...
Beef
In recent weeks, slurry and fertiliser spreaders have been a common site in the fields, and on the roads in...
Beef
By Mark Plunkett, Teagasc soil and plant nutrition specialist Grass silage has a large nutrient demand and adequate nitrogen (N),...
Sheep
Grass can account for 95% of breeding ewes’ total dietary needs, according to AgriSearch’s Dr. Elizabeth Earle. “High-quality grass contains...
Agri-Business
Eight new varieties of ryegrass and one red and one white clover have been added to the 2019-2020 Recommended Grass...
Dairy
Significant numbers of dairy farmers are turning to zero-grazing to make use of fragmented or far away land, lower the...
Beef
Beef farmers wishing to use Limousin genetics in the future will have access to a wider range of production traits,...
Dairy
Farmers have been encouraged to keep their stock off pastures until grass is as close as possible to the optimum...
Dairy
Several of you have been sending us your pictures and videos of your cows’ first days out across the country....
Grass
Researchers expect grass growth to boom over the next seven days, bringing growth back on track with the 10-year average....
N.Ireland
GrassCheck researchers are advising farmers to review their forage budgets as the latest predictions for growth sit at just a...
Grass
Italian Ryegrass (IRG) will produce 25% more herbage than Perennial Ryegrass (PRG), Barenbrug UK Ltd’s James Ingles has said. Ingles...
N.Ireland
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) saw large crowds for its ‘More from Grass’ event yesterday, June 20, in Loughgall,...
N.Ireland
The Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) at Loughgall, Co. Armagh will host a ‘More from Grass’ event on Tuesday, June...
Grass
Dow AgroSciences has launched two new grassland herbicides for farmers in Ireland to use this spring. Leystar is designed to...