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09 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding Are you looking to graze more in March? On this webinar which took place on Wednesday, 3rd March, John Douglas & Joseph Dunphy, Teagasc Grass10 and Micheal O'Leary, PastureBase Ireland go through how you can use PastureBase Ireland to plan your spring grazing. The Grass10 and PastureBase team go through the process of how to maximise the amount of grazing​ this spring to set the farm up for the next rotation and the summer time. The webinar also give practical advice on the Grass Wedge, Spring Rotation Planner and Grass Budget for your farm. The ...

05 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Research Insights webinar which took place on Wednesday, 3rd March, Donagh Berry, Teagasc Researcher & Director of VistaMilk SFI Research Centre was joined by Teagasc Researchers Sinéad McParland, Áine O’Brien and Fíona Dunne to discuss achieving sustainable genetic gain in farmed animals. The panellists on this webinar give an insight into the process of how genetically elite parents of the next generation are identified and selected using modern-day breeding tools. Presenter: Panellists:

04 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding The second of the Teagasc Crop Agronomy Update Webinars took place on Tuesday, 2nd March. Teagasc researchers, specialists and advisors updated growers on crop agronomy for the coming weeks. Advice on nitrogen, P&K, PGR and disease control were also discussed. The second event covered crops from across the country including the following: Winter Oats - Nutrition, growth regulation and disease control Winter Barley - Nutrition, growth regulation and disease control Spring beans - Seeding rates, nutrition and weed control Spring barley - Componen...

03 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On the latest episode of the Let's Talk Dairy webinar series, Stuart Childs, Teagasc Dairy Specialist gives an insight into body condition score at calving in the Spring time. He also outlines what the ideal BCS bracket your cows should be in. The best time to do the body condition score is from now up to the breeding season. Typically the objective of the body condition score is to be within a 3.0 and 3.5 window. Optimum results are achived within this. Ideally a score of 3.25 is the best. View webinar recording below: Let's Talk Dairy is a weekly ...

03 March 2021 Type Event Proceeding On a recent Farm Business Options webinar which took place on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021, host Barry Caslin, Teagasc was joined by Helen Doherty, Social Farming Ireland, to outline what anyone considering running a Social Farm enterprise needs to know. Two social dairy farmers, John Murphy from Kildinan, Co. Cork and Jennifer Payne from Tulsk, Co. Roscommon also joined the webinar to give an insight into their experiences to date. A Q&A session took place at the end of the webinar. View presentations below