Multi species swards

Multi species swards continue to be a hot topic amongst dairy, beef and sheep producers but what is a multi species sward?? The definition of multi-species, is a mixture made up of of two or more ...

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Drive your Animals Performance this Autumn with Drummonds Feeds

From mid-June to late October, a substantial number of beef cattle will be slaughtered off grass. Slaughtering cattle at this time of year has a number of advantages including lower cost of ...

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Green Acres ‘Mega Bite’ works well on Cork farm

E and F Linehan farm within only a few miles of Cork city centre. Based near Glanmire, the family milk a herd of Holstein Friesian cows on a liquid milk contract. Producing high quality forage for ...

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Sowing ‘Catch Crops’ this Autumn.

A ‘cover crop’ or ‘catch crop’ is grown primarily for the purpose of ‘protecting or improving’ between periods of regular crop production. Research and use at farm level have shown that ...

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Report finds tillage has highest carbon efficiency

An expansion of the tillage sector could help to reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment and reduce dependency on imports, according to a report published by a leading ...

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Being An Irish Tillage Farmer

Damien visits Ollie Whyte's farm in North County Dublin to find out more about being an Irish tillage farmer and he also speaks to Andy Doyle of the Irish Farmers Journal about the difficulties ...

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