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Farm Tech Talk: SCEP, clover and milk processors
Jack Kennedy
On the agenda this week, we chat about various farm schemes and look at the future finances of some major milk processors.
9 April 2025 Management
Dairy management: keeping pre-grazing yields at the right level
April can often be a difficult month to manage grass, but the risk this April is keeping quality right, writes Aidan Brennan.
9 April 2025 Grass & feeding
Clover looking promising in 2025
Aidan Brennan chats with Teagasc researchers Michael Egan and Michael O’Donovan on managing clover this summer.
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Farmers to be paid for slurry as ‘biogas creamery’ unveiled
Contracting
Is it time to rethink round bale pricing?
Motors
Toyota’s new Land Cruiser is desirable but expensive too
Renewables
Carlow's new slurry creamery – what’s in it for farmers?
Markets
Calf price update: onwards and upwards for prices as supply eases
New Zealand’s trade ethos similar to that of Europe
Hamish Marr, New Zealand’s special agricultural trade envoy, is a fifth-generation mixed arable farmer from Methven in the South Island of New Zealand. He met with Jack Kennedy this week.
9 April 2025 News
Farmer Writes: hoping for a better year than 2012
James Strain reflects on some of the similarities between the start of this year and 2012, but hopes for a much different ending.
2 April 2025 Farmer Writes
Five golden rules for reseeding
Aidan Brennan outlines five golden rules to follow when reseeding fields, to ensure best success of the new sward.
29 March 2025 Reseeding
Clover working well at Ballyhaise
Helena Walsh, John Joe Collins and Brendan Horan, Teagasc explore the performance of grass and clover at Ballyhaise research farm.
29 March 2025 Reseeding
Grass+ Beef: growth still lackluster as covers deplete
Grass growth has failed to take off to any great degree for many, and though conditions are ideal, many are having to hold cattle in the shed due to a lack of grass.
26 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Editorial: Teagasc clover study published
The objective of the review was to establish a roadmap of actions that Teagasc now needs to take to further develop options for a future with less artificial nitrogen.
26 March 2025 Viewpoints
Insufficient evidence to support multispecies swards - Teagasc report
A new report on Teagasc research into grass and white clover and multispecies has been published, writes Aidan Brennan.
26 March 2025 Grass & feeding
Big year for reseeding in 2025
Aidan Brennan says that all the indications are that 2025 is set to be a good year for reseeding, after a tough year in 2024.
26 March 2025 Reseeding
New white clover varieties are a 'step change'
Aidan Brennan reports from a technical open day at Teagasc Grange organised by Goldcrop where visitors heard about new white clover varieties and got an update on red clover trials.
26 March 2025 Reseeding