Windthrow can reduce the climate benefit of forestry by removing trees that would have kept growing and disturbing the carbon-rich soils beneath them, through the medium of RTÉ Brainstorm, Emmanuel ...

The scheme aims to facilitate farm modernisation including the provision of animal welfare, improve the working and production conditions on farms, improve competitiveness and contribute to the ...

Eamonn and Darren Healy from Wicklow are in a farmer-son partnership together and recently built a new cubicle shed and parlour in order to allow them to expand from 180 to 300 cows. Watch their story ...

Excellence in breeding management underpins profitability on Irish dairy farms. Nationally only 65% of the dairy herd calves in the first six weeks of the calving season in a calving interval of 394 ...

Kildalton College is the largest Teagasc colleges in the country providing courses in Agriculture, Horticulture and Equine Studies. The Kildalton farm consists of 227 hectares of Teagasc owned and ...

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2’6” centre cow spacing with collecting yard for 150 cows, drafting gate and good handling facilities. This parlour features a 16 unit parlour with space for 20 units. Nice compact dairy and plant ...

On grassland farms, having enough grass available for livestock to graze is crucial to ensuring a profitable enterprise. In springtime, applying nitrogen (N) fertiliser will help to provide enough ...

High yields of multi-cut silage are possible from red clover swards without input of artificial nitrogen fertilizer. Red clover is a relatively short-term ley maintaining high levels of production for ...

Develop approaches to quantify plant nitrogen availability in the soil across the year in both perennial ryegrass only and perennial ryegrass-white clover grassland swards. My research area will ...

This is a 60 point rotary parlour with a very high standard of design and construction throughout. There are a range of water saving measures such as rain water harvesting, inward sloping deck and a ...

Emmanuel Kuffour Osei is a Postdoctoral Fellow whose research areas include antimicrobial resistance and bacteriophage (phage) therapy, microbial genomics, viromics, probiotics, pig health, early-life ...