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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
3,500 weanlings to set sail for Israel next week
News
Farmer Writes: picking out cull cows and show heifers
Beef
Five tips for farm safety at silage time
News
A simple trial and a ‘complete handling’
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
Five tips for fluke drenching cattle
When treating cattle for fluke, outlined are a few things to consider for effective parasite control.


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
Safety around slurry stores: the grants available and how to qualify
Not all investments require planning permission, while several areas surrounding slurry storage qualify for a 60% grant rate for all farmers.


VIDEOS


FARM PROGRAMMES
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.
Newford Farm
Newford Farm update: low level of repeat breeding activity
Breeding appears to be progressing nicely, with only a handful of animals receiving a repeat insemination in the fourth week of the breeding season.
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
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.
SPONSORED
Farm safely – look up and look out for electricity poles and wires
ESB Networks Public Safety Manager Michael Murray is reminding farmers to take necessary safety precautions with overhead wires, poles and stay wires ahead of the busy forage saving season.
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Over half a million acres of farm land mapped using FREE mapping tool
All farmers in Ireland and the UK can now map their farms for free in a matter of minutes, thanks to a service launched by Herdwatch, the leading farm management software used on over 18,000 farms.