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This year’s Teagasc hill sheep conference takes place online over two nights. / Clive Wasson The programme of events for this year’s Teagasc hill sheep conference has been announced and includes a wide range of topics including farm production and financial performance, breeding, health and feeding of ewes in late pregnancy. The event will take place over two nights with both event’s proceedings taking place from 8pm to 9pm. The first topic on Wednesday 17 February entails the experience of Donegal hill sheep farmer David McLaughlin, who has been a participant of the Teagasc BETTER Farm Hill Sheep Programme since 2008. ....
Joseph Chasing Training Idol Pletcher, Hopes To Continue Success In G3 Gulfstream Park Sprint Sponsored by: Multiple graded-stakes winner Mischevious Alex is expected to be a short-priced favorite to capture Saturday s Grade 3 Gulfstream Park Sprint, continuing a most successful Championship Meet for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. The Gulfstream Park Sprint, a six-furlong dash for 4-year-olds and up, and the the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint (G3), a five-furlong race for 4-year-olds and up, will co-headline Saturday s 12-race program that will also feature a mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool. Joseph, whose year-round success at Gulfstream has attracted the attention of high-profile owners in recent years, is currently sitting second in the trainer standings behind 16-time Championship Meet titleist Todd Pletcher. ....
A cow and her calf in a pen on Cork farmer Ger McSweeney s farm outside Millstreet The margins were not there at what I was doing part-time, selling calves as weanlings. Only the few very good ones were making money, mostly Limousin calves. So I took the chance to look at the whole thing. From a science point of view, things were improving off farm, with the Better Farm Programme. I had a lot of interest in it and was lucky to get involved in back in 2018 and that really helped focus the mind. In 2018 when Ger went farming full-time, he had just over 30 cows in the herd, which he had been building up since 2013. The plan was to keep increasing the numbers every year gradually while in the background I was trying to get a lot of basics right. ....
SHARING OPTIONS: Hill ewes are not housed, except in unusual circumstances and are generally not fed silage/hay but are offered feed blocks and concentrates at times during the winter and in the lead up to lambing. A major component of the McLaughlin’s farm plan was designing a breeding policy to allow the hill flock to produce sufficient replacement ewe lambs for both the hill and lowland flocks. \ Clive Wasson Previous Next David and Linda McLaughlin farm just outside Greencastle in Co Donegal and have been participating in the Teagasc BETTER Farm sheep programme since 2009, running both lowland and hill sheep enterprises alongside a herd of suckler cows. This year marks the end of David and Linda’s time in the programme and is a good chance to look at some of the key elements of their farming system. ....