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Deadline looming for schemes weight recording

Weights must be recorded by 5.30pm on 1 November under the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme and the National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme

MANAGEMENT 28 October 2026

Deadline looming for schemes weight recording

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Beef management: grass supplies, lying space and autumn breeding

Beef management: grass supplies, lying space and autumn breeding

MANAGEMENT 28 October 2026

Inadequate space allowance will hit performance

Inadequate space allowance will hit performance

MANAGEMENT 28 October 2026

Beef management: calf weighing deadline and final days to spread FYM

Beef management: calf weighing deadline and final days to spread FYM

Beef management: calf weighing deadline and final days to spread FYM

MANAGEMENT 21 October 2026

Excitement builds ahead of annual Tullamore Farm in-calf heifer sale

Excitement builds ahead of annual Tullamore Farm in-calf heifer sale

Excitement builds ahead of annual Tullamore Farm in-calf heifer sale

MANAGEMENT 21 October 2026

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Beef management: lime spreading, castration rules and autumn feeding

Beef management: lime spreading, castration rules and autumn feeding

Martin Merrick discusses why it’s a perfect time to spread lime, rules around castration, submitting your fertiliser closing stock and supplementing finishing cattle.

MANAGEMENT 14 October 2026

Key considerations with cattle lying and pen space this winter

Key considerations with cattle lying and pen space this winter

Martin Merrick outlines the key areas that farmers need to focus on when it comes to prepping housing as cattle begin to head indoors

BUILDINGS 14 October 2026

Beef management: worming, grass supplies and mart events

Beef management: worming, grass supplies and mart events

Martin Merrick discusses some key advice from vets on parasite control, coping with grass supplies this autumn and what mart events are happening this week.

MANAGEMENT 7 October 2026

Small fodder surplus on Tullamore Farm

Small fodder surplus on Tullamore Farm

The figures are based on a six-month winter for cattle and three-month winter for sheep with a demand for silage of in excess of 1,000t

MANAGEMENT 7 October 2026

Beef management: grass tetany, housing preparation and mart events

Beef management: grass tetany, housing preparation and mart events

Martin Merrick gives some practical advice on reducing the risk of grass tetany and prepping buildings for housing and looks at what events are coming up for the autumn beef series this week.

MANAGEMENT 30 September 2026

How a Clare family makes part-time farming work with 27 suckler cows

How a Clare family makes part-time farming work with 27 suckler cows

The Skehan family are focused on labour efficiency and a productive cow in their 27-cow suckler-to-store/beef herd in Killaloe, Co Clare

MANAGEMENT 23 September 2026

Real-time nitrates figures on the horizon

Real-time nitrates figures on the horizon

The Department announced that it is developing approaches for real-time nitrates figures on MyAgfood.ie, which in turn will feed in to valuable projections.

SCHEMES 23 September 2026

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