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Factory spotlight focuses on heavier lamb carcases

Plants are encouraging farmers to draft any heavier lambs promptly with a number operating or considering introducing price penalties for carcases deemed overweight.

MANAGEMENT 14 January 2026

Factory spotlight focuses on heavier lamb carcases

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Sheep Management: liver fluke, abortion control and religious festival dates

Sheep Management: liver fluke, abortion control and religious festival dates

MANAGEMENT 14 January 2026

Tullamore Farm update: ewes scan at 1.88 lambs per ewe joined

Tullamore Farm update: ewes scan at 1.88 lambs per ewe joined

TULLAMORE FARM 7 January 2026

Sheep Management: marketing cull ewes, carcase weights and SIS reference number

Sheep Management: marketing cull ewes, carcase weights and SIS reference number

Sheep Management: marketing cull ewes, carcase weights and SIS reference number

MANAGEMENT 7 January 2026

Do you need to spread slurry using LESS equipment in 2026?

Do you need to spread slurry using LESS equipment in 2026?

Do you need to spread slurry using LESS equipment in 2026?

SCHEMES 7 January 2026

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Take care disbudding and drenching this Christmas

Take care disbudding and drenching this Christmas

Farmers tackling routine jobs over the Christmas break are being urged to take extra care, after AFBI reports revealed serious injuries linked to common tasks.

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

Sheep Management: early lambing ewes and SIS scanning records

Sheep Management: early lambing ewes and SIS scanning records

Ewes and lambs retained indoors will require higher levels of supplementation while management will need to be concise to keep disease levels at bay.

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

Sheep management: ewe condition, drafting lambs and sheep census returns

Sheep management: ewe condition, drafting lambs and sheep census returns

Ewes remaining outdoors are particularly exposed to losing body condition, where grass supplies have been depleted or utilisation is poor.

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

Sheep management: finishing lambs indoors and reviewing straw supplies

The performance of lambs being finished outdoors is poor; higher performance attainable where lambs can be finished indoors.

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

Sheep Management: housing ewes, lameness control and sheep census

Sheep Management: housing ewes, lameness control and sheep census

Grass supplies have been depleted on many farms leaving little option but to introduce supplementary feeding at grass or house ewes.

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

Sheep management: bluetongue virus, ewe condition and clean livestock policy

Sheep management: bluetongue virus, ewe condition and clean livestock policy

It is critical that all farmers adhere to movement restrictions and report any suspect issues to their vet / Department with maximum effort required to stop the virus from spreading

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

Using MyAgfood.ie to plan numbers and monitor nitrates figures

Using MyAgfood.ie to plan numbers and monitor nitrates figures

The new facility has valuable features including projecting nitrates figures, checking the age of animals at a future date and herd categorisation capabilities

MANAGEMENT 26 November 2025

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Consistency and calf health key to Offaly farmer’s success

For Offaly dairy and sheep farmers, husband-and-wife team Ann Maire Butterfield and Stephen McQuade, AAA Golden Maverick has always been part of the story.

Consistency and calf health key to Offaly farmer’s success

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