Podcast Episodes

Let's Talk Dairy Bonus Episode: Protected Urea & Weaning Calves

With the current lockdown restrictions in place, Teagasc are running a weekly Let's Talk Dairy webinar series which is also being made available afterwards as a bonus podcast episode. 

On this first …

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

Minimising the spread of mastitis in mid-lactation

Milk quality specialist Don Crowley joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss how to minimise the spread of mastitis in mid-lactation.

Staph aureus is the main source of mastitis and high SCC in dairy herd…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

The Dairy sector response to COVID-19

Teagasc's Chief Economist Kevin Hanrahan joins Emma-Louise Coffey on this week's Dairy Edge to discuss how Covid-19 is impacting on the Irish Dairy Sector.

Kevin gives an insight into the effect of CO…

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

Why Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are important for dairy farms

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on dairy farms are as important as ever during the Covid-19 crisis and on this week’s Dairy Edge, Teagasc Specialist Francis Quigley, joins Emma-Louise Coffey to …

Published on 5 years, 7 months ago

Updates to the EBI including sire selection for heifers

Geneticist Siobhan Ring joins Emma-Louise Coffey on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss updates to the Economic Breeding Index including the new calving difficulty tool for heifers.

Firstly, Siobhan ex…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Tips to control grass as growth rates surge

With growth rates of grass ‘exploding’ across the country, John Maher joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss key management tools to manage grass.

John discusses the favourable weather conditions that f…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Tips to prepare cows for breeding & criteria to generate the best genetics for your herd

Dairy Specialist George Ramsbottom joins Emma-Louise Coffey to give his tips on how to prepare cows for the upcoming breeding season along with advice to generate the best genetics for your herd.

Fir…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Maintaining health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 challenge

Health and Safety Specialist, John McNamara, joins Emma-Louise Coffey to advise farmers on how to maintain health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 challenge.

Firstly, John re-emphasises the importan…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Managing workload and staff through COVID-19

In the wake of the government's Covid-19 measures, dairy farmer Kevin Twomey joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss what he and his team are doing on farm to minimise the risk of COVID-19.

While the farm…

Published on 5 years, 8 months ago

Johnstown Castle performance update for the winter and spring herds

Johnstown Castle farm manager Aidan Lawless joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the current performance of the Johnstown Castle dairy herd.

Aidan acknowledges that while February rainfall recorded at…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago