The Hennessy family of Cappamore, Bearfield, Co. Clare, are milking 86 cows on a a fully organic dairy system. Eoin, Traci, ...

If we want to dismiss something as irrelevant, we'd say that it's "as boring as watching the grass grow." And yet ...

Wholecrop cereal silage has become a key part of how many dairy and beef producers balance diets and stretch forage stocks.

With a continuation of dry, hot weather, trying to hold farm cover is a priority on all farms with supplementation needed for ...

Dairy Australia’s Top Fodder courses provide practical training for dairy farmers looking to maximise their silage yields ...

Climate change will result in more year-on-year variability in weather and grass growth, Teagasc research has found.

Tedding a swath of grass needs to reduce metabolisable energy losses by 0.3MJ/kg of dry matter, otherwise it may not justify ...

IT doesn’t really matter if you know exactly where the Strait of Hormoz is in the world, but farmers soon realise its ...

As we all know, June and July are difficult months to manage grass in normal conditions, never mind when the crop comes under the heat and moisture deficit stress, like it is now, writes ruminant nutr ...

Magnesium is an essential mineral in preventing milk fever in fresh calvers. When dry cow nutrition is based on a total mixed ...

Many farmers took the chance to make hay bales while the sun shone during the recent heatwave, which was officially declared ...

Work done by Teagasc shows that meeting Ireland’s biomethane targets using grass silage and slurry could increase agricultural sector income by about €50 million annually (around 1.25pc) and reduce ...