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Beef
Five tips to get spring grazing back on track
Kieran Mailey
As weather becomes more settled, outlined are five tips to get the grazing rotation back on track in April.
 
 
Beef
Five tips for closing up second-cut silage
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The 3 Rs of worm control: Right dose, Right animal and Right time
News
Weekend weather: sunny spells and dry conditions
Beef
3,500 weanlings to set sail for Israel next week
TOOLS & CALCULATORS


BEEF
Grazing
Five tips to get spring grazing back on track
As weather becomes more settled, outlined are five tips to get the grazing rotation back on track in April.
DAIRY
Milk quality
Tirlán paying higher prices for milk solids
Tirlán continues to dominate the league tables in NI for 1m litre suppliers.
SHEEP
Sheep handling
Anticipation building for TAMS III farm safety scheme
Grant aid at a rate of 60% is available for sheep handling equipment but the safety scheme is one of four entry routes that remain unopen.
ANIMAL HEALTH
Animal health
Best policy for parasite control
Natascha Meunier, Beef HealthCheck Programme manager with Animal Health Ireland, outlines some of the key criteria for dosing stock this winter.


TILLAGE
Cereals
Know your growth stages: efficient timing is everything
Plant protection products should be applied at the correct timing. Identifying growth stages can be difficult.
MACHINERY
Silage
Is your baler in check and up to spec?
In order to minimise downtime this silage season, Gary Abbott looks at some of the key points and areas to consider from a maintenance perspective when it comes to combination balers.
BUILDINGS
Calf housing
TAMS III for beef farmers: handling, housing and slurry storage
Martin Merrick looks at some of the options that will be available to beef farmers now that TAMS III has opened for applications.
FARM SAFETY
Farm safety
Weekend weather: sunny spells and dry conditions
Met Éireann predicts a mix of cloud and sunny spells, giving mild and dry conditions with highs of 21° or 22°.


VIDEOS


FARM PROGRAMMES
Management
Early indications positive on sexed semen use on Tullamore Farm
Shane Dobson checks in with Tullamore Farm manager Shaun Diver to see what's been happening on the farm this week.
Management
Dairy cross cows working hard in Newford
Adam Woods reports from the Newford Suckler Demonstration Farm open day held earlier this week
Footprint Farmers
Installing owl boxes in Co Waterford
Footprint Farmer Pádraig Connery has put up a couple of owl boxes on his farm in the past couple of weeks.
Footprint Farmers
In pictures: hive of activity across the Footprint Farms as the weather improves
Sunny spells across the Footprint Farms have meant crops have got their final fungicide, as well as single farm payments and SCEP applications being submitted.
SPONSORED
The 3 Rs of worm control: Right dose, Right animal and Right time
As sure as night follows day, once the grass really starts to grow, cattle and sheep will be challenged by the burden of worms.
SPONSORED
Steady cattle and sluggish sheep trade so far in 2023
Mark Zieg, Bord Bia beef, meat and livestock manager, and Seamus McMenamin, sheepmeat and livestock manager, look at trade.
SPONSORED
Credit products available to farmers
Key information to know when looking for credit products for Irish farmers.
SPONSORED
Multiple Bord na Móna auctions boast over 400 lots of machinery this May
Wilsons Auctions prepares once again to offer bidders a huge selection of tractors, machinery, tyres, motorbikes, equipment and more surplus assets on behalf of the iconic Irish company Bord na Móna.