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Highly engineered buildings for high yielders in Kilkenny
Martin Merrick
O’Dwyer Steel has ensured that the new rotary shed and cubicle house on the Ardboy Dairy farm just outside Kilkenny city.
26 April 2025 Infrastructure
Spring a good time to look at design for labour-friendly calf sheds
Aidan Brennan looks at some new design ideas for calf sheds incorporating automatic calf feeders.
26 April 2025 Infrastructure
Strength and safety key focus for new suckler calving shed
A newly erected calving shed has farmer safety to the forefront with a well-kitted-out barrier system.
Seaside second block gets major infrastructure upgrade
Chris Tuffy spent much of 2024 upgrading facilities on his second rented milking platform along the Sligo coast.
23 April 2025 Infrastructure
Seeing double with two underpasses in Cork
The O’Sullivans recently completed work on not one but two underpasses on their West Cork dairy farm. Martin Merrick reports.
23 April 2025 Infrastructure
Is it a wise time to invest in infrastructure?
Does it make sense now, with high commodity prices, to return that money back in to the business through developments of infrastructure? Martin Merrick attempts to answer such.
23 April 2025 Infrastructure
Farm fencing – to go with or without TAMS aid
Bovine electric fencing has a reference cost of €2.77/m while sheep fencing has a reference cost of €6.75/m on lowland ground and €8.81/m on mountain terrain.
23 April 2025 Infrastructure
Getting your TAMS solar application right
Stephen Robb examines the key points farmers need to know that could delay their TAMS solar application.
21 April 2025 Renewables
Solar installers confident despite sector challenges
Stephen Robb speaks to some of the leading solar PV suppliers about the prospects of solar energy on farms.
19 April 2025 Renewables
Lowering feed cost: picking the low hanging ‘FCE’ fruit
Michael McKeon takes a look at what to look at when targeting increasing feed efficiency on pig farms.
18 April 2025 Pigs
Biocore: turning sludge into power
Stephen Robb visits Biocore Environmental in Roscommon, which uses wastewater sludge as feedstock for its anaerobic digestion.
18 April 2025 Renewables
Is it time to rethink round bale pricing?
Fergal O’Sullivan spoke with Irish contractors to understand why they believe the current payment system per bale is outdated and what needs to change so bale density is rewarded and not punished.
16 April 2025 Contracting