Podcast Episodes

Understanding soil saturation and supplement requirements in the current conditions

On this week’s episode of The Dairy Edge, James Humphreys and Brian Garry join Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the different aspects of dairy management – from soil saturation to supplement requirement…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Coping with the consequences of heavy rainfall

Dairy farmer John McNamara joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the challenges of the recent heavy rainfall on his farm.

John explains that there has been almost 200mm of rain on his farm during the m…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Early milk recording for health and profit gains

Dairy Specialist Stuart Childs joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the benefits to dairy cow health and overall farm profits through milk recording.

Stuart explains that the level of milk recording r…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Getting grazed grass into the dairy cow diet through challenging weather conditions

Micheál O’Leary and Fergus Bogue join Emma-Louise Coffey to advise on managing grazing during challenging weather conditions.

Firstly, Micheál quantifies the over-winter growth and the opening farm c…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

Managing energy balance and metabolic disorders in early lactation

Stephen Butler joins Emma-Louise Coffey to advise on how to manage energy balance and metabolic disorders in early lactation.

Firstly, Stephen emphasises the importance of dry cow management to ensur…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

Short-term OAD milking to reduce peak labour demand

Emer Kennedy joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the Once-A-Day milking experiment at Teagasc Moorepark.

Emer explains the different variations of OAD milking, including OAD milking short term in ear…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

The Profitability on Dairy Farms in 2019

Dairy specialist, George Ramsbottom, joins Emma-Louise Coffey to give an early indication of profitability on dairy farms in 2019.

George explains that his analysis contains 400 dairy farms to date -…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

Milking 800 cows once a day in two herds

Keith Davis joined Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss the role of once-a-day milking in his large scale herd in Gloucestershire.

Keith was speaking at Teagasc’s recent Once a Day Milking conference and he…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

Tackling the growing disconnect between kids and farming

On this week’s episode of The Dairy Edge, dairy farmer, Karol Kissane, joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss his Nuffield studies about school students perceptions of agriculture. 

Karol discusses the …

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

Succession Planning for Family Farms

Farm Structure specialist Gordon Peppard joins Emma-Louise Coffey to discuss opportunities in dairy farming for family farms.

Gordon identified the key players that are important for any partnership,…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago