The Dairy Edge

The Grass10 Grazing Year in Review

For the final Grass10 grazing management update of 2024, Joseph Dunphy discusses the 2024 grazing year with Ciaran Hearn from PastureBase Ireland, plus find out how to make better use of your grazing data through the reports on PastureBas…

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, now that we are in early December, Joseph Dunphy discusses completing your closing Average Farm Cover on PastureBase Ireland along with an up to date set of soil samples. Pl…

The key messages from the Dairy Conference workshops

This week on the Dairy Edge, we continue our coverage from the Teagasc National Dairy Conference in Limerick.  The theme of this year’s conference was Robust Dairy Farming for Future Challenges. As part of the conference the…

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

On this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses PastureBase data, Dry Matter % and Predicted rainfall & soil temperatures for the week.  Now that we are in early December, Joseph discusses compl…

Robust Dairy Farming for Future Challenges

This week’s Dairy Edge brings you some of the main insights from the 2024 Teagasc National Dairy Conference, including Áine Murray and Donal Patton, Teagasc Grassland Researchers, who gave an in-depth look on current grassland performance…

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses PastureBase data, Dry Matter % and Predicted grass growth, rainfall & soil temperatures for the week.  Joseph also discusses completing your clos…

Your Weekly Gras10 Update

For the latest Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses PastureBase data, Dry Matter % and Predicted grass growth, rainfall & soil temperatures for the week.  As December 1st approaches, Joseph also dis…

Get the basics right during the dry cow period

Dr Aisling Claffey, Teagasc Ruminant Nutritionist, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss the important practices to remember when it comes to the upcoming dry cow period.  Aisling discusses the importance of…

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses PastureBase data, Dry Matter % and Predicted grass growth, rainfall and soil temperatures for the week. Joseph also discusses current grazing managem…

Joe Patton on how to make dairy farming more robust for the future

Joe Patton, Head of Dairy Knowledge Transfer in Teagasc, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to outline the factors that will make dairy more robust in the future in advance of the Teagasc National Dairy Conference entitled ‘Rob…