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The Dairy Edge

The Dairy Edge is Teagasc’s dairy podcast for farmers with the latest information, insights and opinion to improve your dairy farm performance. Visit the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/

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Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/11/20

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice, while the featured farmer is Mike Ahern from Ballyduff, Co. Waterford. Read more from this week’s Grass10 newsletter and subscribe for weekly updates at:https://bit.ly/Grass10-18thNov25 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.com

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39:36

Dairy Conference Preview with Joe Patton

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/11/17

Joe Patton, Head of Dairy Knowledge Transfer in Teagasc, joins Stuart Childs on the latest Dairy Edge to preview the upcoming Dairy Conferences. With sudden drops in milk price catching many farmers off guard and even many of those who work in the area of forecasting prices, Joe explains, however, that the best-performing farms remain the best ones regardless of price cycles. Farmers shouldn’t overhaul their system each time the price rises or falls. Instead, consistent fundamentals — good

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8:30

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/11/13

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice and setting up for the spring, while the featured farmer is Gerry Finneran, Carrignavar, Co. Cork. Read more from this week’s Grass10 newsletter at:https://bit.ly/Grass10-11thNov25 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.com

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36:33

Water Quality in River Catchments with Philip Murphy

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/11/10

Philip Murphy, Catchment Coordinator for the River Blackwater, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss applying water quality and addressing it. Philip explains that his role focuses on addressing agricultural pressures on water quality across the wider Blackwater catchment, beyond the already targeted high-priority areas, through providing clear, consistent advice to farmers and advisors, helping to raise awareness where one-to-one guidance is not currently available. He

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8:12

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/11/06

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice, while the featured farmer is Will Griffin, Co. Carlow. Read more from this week’s Grass10 newsletter at:https://bit.ly/Grass10-4thNovember25 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.com

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31:57

Dry Cow Period - getting the basics right

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/11/04

Aisling Claffey, Teagasc ruminant nutritionist, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss what’s important to remember when it comes to the upcoming dry cow period. For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.com

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6:45

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/31

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice and closing up for early spring grass. The featured farmer is John Payne, from Co. Longford who is targeting a closing AFC of 800 kg DM/ha on Dec 1st. Read more from this week’s Grass10 newsletter at:https://bit.ly/Grass10-28thOctober2025 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a

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34:22

Managing Cash, Costs and Volatility - Preparing for 2026

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/27

Teagasc Dairy Specialist, Patrick Gowing, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss how to best manage surplus cash, build financial resilience, review production costs, and ensure farmers best prepared for 2026. As 2025 draws to a close, it will be remembered as one of the best farming years in recent memory due to strong milk prices, increased stock values and good weather for most parts. This means that dairy farm incomes are in a good place for the 2025 calendar year

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9:07

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/23

John Maher has the latest Grass10 grazing management update, and this week’s featured farmer is Niall O’Regan from Mallow, Co. Cork. Read more from this week’s Grass10 newsletter at:https://bit.ly/grass10-21stOctober2025 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.com

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29:28

Time for lime

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/20

John Maher, Grass10 Manager, and John Leahy, dairy farmer in Athea, Co. Limerick, join Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss applying lime. Despite difficult weather a few weeks ago, things have improved, John explains, and ground conditions, rotation length and money in the bank will allow people to spread lime. John outlines that we are very short of where we should be in terms of lime applied to where we should be. It’s more than 40 years since we spread over 2 million

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10:08

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/16

For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, John Maher discusses current grazing advice and closing up for early spring grass. It’s a great opportunity to spread lime - the cheapest fertiliser one can buy! The featured farmer is Mark Lonergan, who is from Co. Tipperary and is targeting a closing AFC of 750 kg DM/ha on Dec 1st. Read more from this week’s Grass10 newsletter at:https://bit.ly/grass10-14thOctober2025 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page

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25:46

Selective Dry Cow Therapy - excellent management is...

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/13

Teagasc Research Officer, Pablo Silva Boloña, whose work focuses on milk quality, dairy cow mastitis and selective dry cow therapy, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge. Pablo explains selective dry therapy and why it is being implemented on Irish dairy farms, plus he highlights the important management steps to ensure its successful implementation at farm level. For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page

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8:16

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/09

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 grazed. The featured farmer is Jason Coulter, who is from Co. Sligo and trying to get autumn closing sorted out after a very difficult weekend. Link to this week’s Grass10 newsletter:https://bit.ly/grass10-7thOctober2025 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page

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31:18

Optimising the Winter Diet for Liquid Milk Herds

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/06

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 around the winter diet. Winter feed is obviously a significant cost to producing liquid milk therefore it is important farmers get it right. Mike explains how forage quality is key to generating the best possible margin and outlines some simple management practices that will improve animal

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12:58

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/10/02

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. Carlow and Shane was the Young Farmer Category Winner of the Sustainable Grassland Farmer of the Year. Link to this week’s Grass10 newsletter:https://bit.ly/grass10-30thSeptember2025 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page

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21:26

ICBF Updates with Kevin Downing

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/09/28

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 change in order to make sure we are comparing the current cows with as representative population as possible to best reflect the on farm performance of herds. Kevin then discusses the changes that have been introduced in economic values. This is the first update since 2017. This adjustment is done

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8:52

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/09/25

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 behind on grass supply. He also has tips on dealing with some difficult grazing conditions. Link to this week’s Grass10 newsletter:https://bit.ly/grass10-23rdSeptember2025 For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page

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30:24

Autumn Closing Planning

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/09/22

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 year for the most part, in the area he covers, with people complaining about making bales at this stage which is a far cry from the situation experienced in 2024. However, the recent dry spell has reduced the building of grass having come from a very strong position in early to mid-August. John

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10:02

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/09/18

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 behind on grass supply. He also highlights this week’s feature farm, the O’Dea Farm Partnership, who are having a phenomenal grazing year with 14 tons DM/ha grown already with an input of 140 units N/acre and superb clover! Link to this week’s Grass10

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19:09

Soil Fertility Management after the Spreading Deadline

The Dairy Edge ·

2025/09/16

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 deadline passing for 2025. Firstly, Seamus outlines the reduction in chemical nitrogen in the last 9 years and these reductions are becoming more conspicuous where soil fertility isn’t on point. Seamus explains that lime is magic as it frees up 70-80kgs of N and frees up P and K that are locked up

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