Tag: agriculture

Richard Brown milks 190 cows on a 33-hectare grazing block.

Mena McCloskey studies a BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Technology with Professional Studies at Queen’s University Belfast/College of Agriculture, Food & Rural Enterprise and runs a suckler and sheep enterprise with her father.

Gordon Campbell and his father Wilson made the change from the parlour method of milking their 160-strong herd to using robots.

Sean Moloney is a BSc (Hons) Sustainable Farm Management and Agribusiness degree programme in the Institute of Technology Carlow, Wexford campus.

Mary Ann Alexander, an agri-environment adviser at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE), writes about preparing your yard and housing for the winter.

UCD animal and crop production student, Eilish Gill, has been passionate about breeding cattle from a tender age. She purchased her first pedigree Simmental heifer...

Noel McNeill, beef and sheep adviser at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) provides management tips for autumn-calving suckler herds.

Ivan McMullan's farm currently supports 40 spring-calving suckler cows with calves finished as beef and a flock of 250 ewes.”

Stephen Gilkinson from CAFRE discusses how they tightened the calving pattern in the CAFRE dairy herd.

26-year-old Cathal Cassidy runs a 200-strong beef herd and 400-ewe flock with his father, Edward, while also working as a ruminant nutritionist with Alltech. The...