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Improving Biodiversity on Your Farm – Planting a hedge
0 Improving Biodiversity on Your Farm – Planting a hedge February is a key month to get planting native trees and hedging on your farm. Always plant native trees and hedging on the farm as they have a much higher biodiversity value. That means they provide a higher habitat value for our natural […]
5 February 2022
Future Beef Programme in Clare
0 Future Beef Programme in Clare The Teagasc Future Beef Programme is focusing on reducing inputs and costs of production while increasing the performance of every animal on the farm. Thomas Gleeson, Teagasc advisor introduces James Skehan from Ballynevin, who is Clare’s Future Beef farmer The aim of this programme is to demonstrate […]
5 February 2022
Potato Newsletter February 2022
0 Potato Newsletter February 2022 The recent Teagasc Crop Costs and Returns booklet is interesting, if not scary, reading for many growers. All costs including fertiliser, seed, diesel, parts etc. will be higher this year than 2021 increasing pressure on margins for the 2022 crop. The February Teagasc Potato Newsletter has advice In […]
4 February 2022
Elisa Arnaud, PhD Student Pig Development Department
0 Elisa Arnaud, PhD Student Pig Development Department In this one of 11 videos of PDD students, Postgraduate student Elisa Arnaud with the Teagasc Pig Development Department (PDD) describes the project she is working on which looks at nutritional and management strategies to improve growth and limit antimicrobial usage in pigs pre and […]
4 February 2022
Long-term Land Leasing
0 Long-term Land Leasing Why are landowners considering Long-term Land Leasing? Gordon Peppard, Teagasc Collaborative Farming Specialist has the answer to this and lists the many benefits including enhanced tax relief incentives, advantages for the lessee, details on stamping the lease & valuable information you should know Profitability of existing enterprise Some farming […]
3 February 2022
New Appointment to Teagasc Authority
0 New Appointment to Teagasc Authority Donald Scully has been appointed to the Teagasc Authority for a five-year term by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue TD. Donald Scully is a member of the ICMSA executive committee and is a dairy farmer from Cherryhill House, Ballyhyland, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. […]
3 February 2022
Tillage Update – 3rd February 2022
0 Tillage Update – 3rd February 2022 One of the key elements of the sustainable use directive (SUD) is that sprayers must be tested and certified. A properly functioning sprayer is essential to get the best response from plant protection products (PPP’s) and to protect the environment. Ciaran Collins, Crops Specialist has more […]
3 February 2022
Teagasc Virtual Tillage Conference 2022
0 Teagasc Virtual Tillage Conference 2022 The 2022 National Tillage Conference took place virtually, split over two days. The first session took place on Thursday, 13 January and the second took place on Thursday, 27 January. Catch up with both days here in this double webinar on Teagasc Daily Session One – Thursday, […]
3 February 2022
Teagasc celebrates World Wetlands Day 2022
0 Teagasc celebrates World Wetlands Day 2022 The Irish Ramsar Wetlands Committee invites you to celebrate World Wetlands day on the 2nd February. Mary Roache, Teagasc ASSAP Advisor & Teagasc representative on The Irish Ramsar Wetlands Committee, reminds us that that farmers play a key role in the conservation and “wise use of […]
2 February 2022
Teagasc Future Beef Programme in Leitrim
0 Teagasc Future Beef Programme in Leitrim The Future Beef Programme is a new Teagasc Beef Demonstration programme consisting of 24 Suckler and Beef finishing farmers around the country. Here we meet Oliver O’Hara, Leitrim’s Future Beef farmer farming full-time with help from his children Shane & Karen near Leckaun, Co. Leitrim Photo […]
2 February 2022