Autumn reseeding is taking place too late on farms in Ireland. If you are reseeding this autumn, make sure the establishment takes place this month. Leaving it too late has knock-on effects from the point of view of good establishment and controlling weeds. This year is challenging farm incomes and investments should be confined to [...]
The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr Brendan Smith TD today formally launched Animal Health Ireland (AHI), which aims to improve overall animal health standards and thereby secure improved profitability for farmers and international competitiveness of livestock products through a coordinated national approach to animal health. Minister Smith said that today's launch represented the [...]
Apart from the final finishing stage of beef cattle, grass silage provides the vast bulk of the winter feed requirements of suckler cows, store cattle and weanlings. While we focus a great deal on the detailed composition of concentrate feeds, silage feeding value can be partly ignored. However, with more than 20 million tonnes made [...]
Short of winter feed? What do you do? You have several options open to you, but before you decide to do anything, cost all your options carefully. For instance, if maize is for sale in the next parish, should you go out and buy 10ac of it? Last week, one such crop of maize, grown [...]
IFA Deputy President Derek Deane said as a result of Commission approval of Irelands application to extend BSE testing from 30 to 48 months on all animals, the way is now clear for the Minister to immediately pass the resulting savings of up to €2m between now and year-end onto farmers by immediately putting in [...]
