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The Grass Week: growth improves but caution still urged
Martin Merrick
While growth has improved over the last week and looks set to do so again this week, some farms are still at dangerously low average farm covers.
26 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Laois farmers hosting the IGA summer tour
Aidan Brennan visits the two farms hosting the Irish Grassland Association (IGA) summer tour to see how their year is going.
26 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Grass+ Dairy: careful balancing act with grass supplies
While the warm weather has helped to push on growth slightly, the likelihood of a soil moisture deficit creeping in could spell disaster for some.
The Grass Week: careful balancing act with grass supplies
With some farmers managing well for grass and others are having to supplement, it’s a careful balancing act to try to manage grass at the minute.
22 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Heat the limiting factor in poor growth conditions
Low air and soil temperatures have been hampering growth and are pushing farmers into having to supplement stock, writes Thomas Condon.
19 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Lower grass growth rates a major risk to feed security and costs
Joe Patton, Ciaran Hearne and Michael O’Donovan from Moorepark look at some of the impacts of lower than normal growth rates and what farmers can do about it.
19 June 2024 Grass & feeding
What you need to know about grassland pesticide use
The use of pesticides is now governed by conditionality, meaning that if breaches occur it may pose a risk to CAP payments, writes Darren Carty.
16 June 2024 Nitrates
The Grass Week: drastic dip in growth but a recovery expected
While growth has taken a tumble over the last two weeks or so, warmer and milder conditions should hopefully swing things back in favour of farmers.
15 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Grass+ dairy: growth rates feeling the pinch
Thomas Condon highlights how cooler weather conditions have caused growth rates to dip below that of demand on a lot of farms around the country, and what to do in this scenario.
12 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Almost 50% cut to profit if derogation is lost
Thomas Condon reports from the Dairygold farm walk on the Goggin farm in Cork where water quality and the impact of the derogation was the centre of attention.
12 June 2024 Grass & feeding
The Grass Week: dip in growth and quality
A mixture of a dip in growth and farmers trying to correct grass is leaving farms at risk of running tight on grass.
8 June 2024 Grass & feeding
Correcting grass quality without running short
Thomas Condon details how farmers should try to maintain quality in swards through correction, without running down farm cover too low.
5 June 2024 Grass & feeding