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Beef
Mart tracker to make calf purchase easier
Contributor
Chris Daly takes a deep dive into the recently launched ICBF Mart Tracker and how farmers can use it.
15 January 2025 News
Mallow students win Teagasc special award at BT Young Scientist
The winning project was titled 'An Investigation into using Total Leaf-Area as a predictive tool for determining below-ground biomass at all stages in the growth of selected Root-Crop Plants'.
13 January 2025 News
Chanelle Pharma appoints new general manager
Pat McLoughlin will oversee all operations across manufacturing, engineering, OPEX, supply chain, quality control and facilities in his new role.
Aldi announces €4m contract extension with Divilly Brothers
Divilly Brothers, a family-owned company, was founded in 1927, is currently headed by brothers Shane and Peter Divilly and employs over 50 people.
6 January 2025 Pigs
Topcon introduces smart feed system for diet feeders with weigh cells
Topcon Agriculture introduced its new TMR Flex Pro feed management system for retrofit with existing weigh cell diet feeders to monitor and manage the feed process while maximising feed efficiency.
1 January 2025 News
Ireland to miss multiple 2030 energy targets - SEAI
In a damning report, the SEAI has said that even in scenarios where most of the ambitious Climate Action Plan targets are met, we will still miss our legally binding national and EU obligations.
29 December 2024 News
Ensuring safe cattle handling: an overview of the Grandin approach
Temple Grandin is a pioneer in cattle handling and understanding how best to design handling units around animal behaviour.
25 December 2024 Infrastructure
New Year and lots of new cars for 2025
The new year bring new car registrations and for 2025 it also brings a host of new car models to the market. Here we dip into a few of the new offerings for 2025.
18 December 2024 Motors
Global shocks leading to food being weaponised
According to a Dutch professor, increasing occurrence of shocks to supply chains and the impact of changing weather patterns means that farmers will need to reevaluate how they view efficiency.
4 December 2024 News
Making progress on emissions reduction
Karl Richards, head of the Climate Centre, Teagasc, says that progress has been made in cutting carbon emissions on farms.
4 December 2024 Signpost Programme
ABP Clones to reduce carbon emissions by 80%
The project forms part of ABP’s overall sustainability strategy and is part of an extensive decarbonisation plan that aims to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 42% from 2021 to 2030 in all ABP sites.
4 December 2024 News
Improving farm labour efficiency
With the average dairy farm experiencing a 30% rise in workload over the last decade, labour efficiency has never been so important, writes Sarah McIntosh.
20 November 2024 Agri jobs