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Home Farm: silage at last, Bord Bia audit and sprayer inspection

We are in fact three weeks later than normal taking our first cut silage mainly because of weather conditions in the February / March period,

VIEWPOINTS 24 June 2026

Home Farm: silage at last, Bord Bia audit and sprayer inspection

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Home Farm: rain postpones silage and paperwork looms

Home Farm: rain postpones silage and paperwork looms

VIEWPOINTS 10 June 2026

Home Farm: meat factory responses

Home Farm: meat factory responses

VIEWPOINTS 3 June 2026

Home Farm: missing silage weather and Bord Bia levies in focus

Home Farm: missing silage weather and Bord Bia levies in focus

Home Farm: missing silage weather and Bord Bia levies in focus

VIEWPOINTS 27 May 2026

Home Farm: another week, another drop in the beef price

Home Farm: another week, another drop in the beef price

Home Farm: another week, another drop in the beef price

VIEWPOINTS 20 May 2026

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Home Farm: clear of TB, but lacking in rain

Home Farm: clear of TB, but lacking in rain

The visible gap between the Bord Bia benchmark price and Irish farmer returns raises really basic questions on the operating model of the Irish beef industry.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

Home Farm: Catching up during dry spell

Home Farm: Catching up during dry spell

Out in the fields, a neighbour with a high clearance, self-propelled sprayer did our oilseed rape for scleritinia.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

Home Farm: Choice of nitrogen

Home Farm: Choice of nitrogen

We had sown the new grass last September – later than ideal – but it took well and was a good dense, highly-digestible sward.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

Home Farm: ground conditions improve

Home Farm: ground conditions improve

We ended up finishing the buying season by buying cattle that won’t be ready until well into 2027.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

Home Farm: catching up during a busy week

Home Farm: catching up during a busy week

We are giving the store cattle a fresh paddock every day, and are concentrating on the land that we intend to close up this week for first-cut silage.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

Home Farm: manifesting better weather

Home Farm: manifesting better weather

With a terrible forecast for the Easter weekend, we decided we would rehouse everything.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

Home Farm: snatching opportunities

Home Farm: snatching opportunities

The rain washed in the nitrogen and almost overnight, the unhealthy yellowing of the winter barley was replaced with a welcome green sheen.

VIEWPOINTS 1 April 2026

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