Podcast Episodes

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice and the start of closing up for early spring grass.  It’s a great week to reseed paddocks sprayed and gr…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Optimising the Winter Diet for Liquid Milk Herds

Mike Dineen, Teagasc Senior Research Officer, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss the fundamentals to optimising performance from freshly calved cows by making informed decisions a…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice and the start of closing up for early spring grass.  

The featured farmer is Shane Hegarty from Co. Carl…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

ICBF Updates with Kevin Downing

Kevin Downing of ICBF joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss the recent changes to the EBI incorporated into the September Evaluation run.

Kevin outlines the reason for the base cha…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing management and advises using the higher grass growth now to build grass into the autumn as many farms are behin…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Autumn Closing Planning

John Conroy, Dairy Advisor in Teagasc Nenagh, and Jim Delahunty, dairy farmer, join Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss closing the farm for 2025.

John says it has been an exceptional …

Published on 3 months ago

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing management and advises using the higher grass growth now to build grass into the autumn as many farms are behin…

Published on 3 months ago

Soil Fertility Management after the Spreading Deadline

Seamus Kearney, Teagasc Tirlán Joint Programme Co-ordinator, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss soil fertility actions that can still be taken despite the chemical fertiliser de…

Published on 3 months ago

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice and as many farms are behind on grass supply, he advises using the higher grass growth now to build gras…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Reducing herd SCC this autumn

Padraig O’Connor, technologist with Teagasc, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to outline how farmers should manage their herd somatic cell count this autumn, how to make best use of the mi…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago