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The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue has revealed details of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funding

Sam Pierce was busy drawing away top soil from the site of a proposed seven bay slatted shed for his 63-head Hereford Cross suckler herd when we spoke last week. The original herd on the farm at Newtown, Bannow, Co Wexford was around half that number, says Sam (27). “Going back to my grand-uncle’s time, the family have always run a mixed farm enterprise with cattle, sheep and tillage. My father’s uncle William ran a pure-bred suckler Hereford herd alongside a pure-bred sheep enterprise. When my father and mother took over in 1987 they continued the beef enterprise but they dropped the s...

March 14, 2021, 6:00 am When you walk into the suckler housing belonging to Brian Brady from Co. Cavan, there are no signs of your typical commercial Limousin, Simmental or Charolais cow. Instead, the shed houses good traditionally-bred Angus cross cows with a mixture of Shorthorn breeding. Farming over 60ac on the outskirts of Kilcogy, AgriLand recently spoke with Brian about the management of his 25-cow suckler herd and his approach to breeding on the farm. Overview of the farm Suckler cows were always one of the main enterprises on the farm, with Brian taking over from his uncle back in 1...

Using a “team of bulls” on his suckler herd has helped North Tipperary farmer Thomas Hogan to achieve a 20pc increase in the Replacement Index of his entire herd.

Almost 70pc of suckler farmers that are eligible to extend their Beef Data Genomics Programme (BDGP) contracts for 2021 intend to do so, it has emerged.