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The Beef Edge

The Beef Edge is Teagasc’s podcast for all the latest news, information and advice for Irish beef farmers, presented by Catherine Egan. Visit the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/beef/the-beef-edge-podcast/

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6:26

The Monthly Grass10 Update with Niamh Doyle including...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/09/07

It was a very challenging August this year and for the monthly Grass10 update, Niamh discusses how farmers have fed silage out over the past few weeks. Calves have been creep grazed in front of cows to break the bond and concentrates supplemented earlier as well as calves being weaned earlier in September versus late September. Supplement introduced 4 weeks pre weaning and will be continued 2 weeks post weaning and possibly longer on some farms. Most of the farmers in the Future Beef

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10:52

Future Beef farmer, Shane Keaveney, on his suckler to...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/09/04

Roscommon Future Beef farmer, Shane Keaveney, features on this week’s Beef Edge podcast discussing management of his suckler to beef system and the upcoming National Beef walk taking place on his farm on Wednesday, 11th September at 6pm. Shane explains that he farms with his wife Gráinne and 3 children and operates a suckling to finishing system with bulls finished under 16 months and heifers that are not kept as replacements sold as stores. Shane aims to finish the bulls at 680-700kgs at

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10:44

Making the Winter Gains

The Beef Edge ·

2024/08/28

Aidan Maguire, DairyBeef 500 farmer from Navan, Co. Meath, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss management on his farm and his upcoming National Beef open day taking place on September 5th at 6pm. Aidan, alongside his son Luke, runs a dairy calf to beef enterprise on their farm, in conjunction with a contracting business. The farm stretches to over 70ha, with 54ha in grass and the remainder in forestry. Up until 1999, Aidan operated tillage and suckler cow enterprises. Having

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13:04

Billy Gilmore, Grass10 Grassland Farmer of the Year...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/08/21

Billy Gilmore, Grass10 Grassland Farmer of the Year Drystock category winner, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss his farm system and grassland management on his farm. In recognition of the award, Billy will host a farm walk on Tuesday, 27th August @ 6.30pm. Billy, along with his wife Anne, operates a contract heifer rearing system rearing over 200 heifers a year. The system has changed over the years, from a mixed system, an autumn-calving suckling system, a spring-lambing

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10:52

All you need to know about the Beef Welfare Scheme

The Beef Edge ·

2024/08/14

Margaret Brennan, Assistant Principal Officer for Beef Schemes with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, discusses and explains the 2024 Beef Welfare Scheme on this week’s Beef Edge podcast. The 2024 Beef Welfare Scheme (BWS) will support farmers in meal feeding suckler calves before and after weaning, and in vaccinating against clostridial diseases and calf pneumonia. Calves eligible to the scheme are those born to eligible suckler cows in the period from July 1st 2023 to

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18:13

Preparing for weaning with Teagasc Vet John Donlon

The Beef Edge ·

2024/08/07

Teagasc researcher and vet, John Donlon, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the main issues that arise around weaning time and how to prevent them. It’s been a difficult year for cows and calves and performance of some calves has been impacted by the extended spring and grazing conditions and weather. John says that many calves may have had health issues in the spring and it is important to reduce stress now at weaning. He explains that delaying weaning will only further cause

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4:38

The Monthly Grass10 Update with Niamh Doyle

The Beef Edge ·

2024/08/03

Teagasc Grass10 advisor, Niamh Doyle, gives her monthly update discussing grass management tips for the month ahead. Currently, growth is ahead of demand on farms and Niamh highlights management and targets for the coming weeks. Second cut harvested in the past few days indicates the yields are back around the country and for farmers that will need a third cut, Niamh advises to apply 2,500 gallons of slurry and 1 bag 38%N. For more, you can subscribe to the Grass10 newsletter

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21:41

Aidan Murray’s Beef Management Tips for August

The Beef Edge ·

2024/07/31

Teagasc Beef Specialist, Aidan Murray, discusses beef management tips for the month ahead on the latest Beef Edge podcast. Aidan says that farmers with autumn calving herds should keep cows fit prior to calving, ensure minerals are supplemented pre-calving, particularly iodine and copper, and he explains ways to avoid mastitis and create awareness at this time of year. Aidan recommends that cows should be scanned in the spring calving herd to help reduce farm demand and discuss options to

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9:55

Key management tips for the coming weeks

The Beef Edge ·

2024/07/24

This week’s Beef Edge podcast is a joint episode with Ciaran Lynch from Ovicast and we are joined by Grass10 advisor Niamh Doyle to get an update on the current situation and discussing management tips for the coming weeks. Niamh says there have been many factors that have limited grass growth over the last number of months such as lower temperatures, especially at night, harsh winds, high rainfall and high levels of poaching due to the wet spring with poor conditions for grazing. Niamh

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12:23

Reducing the finishing age nationally

The Beef Edge ·

2024/07/17

Reducing the mean finishing age of prime beef cattle from 26 to 22-23 months by 2030 is fundamental to achieving Ireland’s 25% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture and on this week’s episode of the Beef Edge podcast, Teagasc researcher Paul Smith discusses this topic. Paul explains the main messages relating to reducing age at slaughter from the BEEF2024 Open Day and future research surrounding the grass-based beef research in comparison to commercial high performing

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26:23

Energy and farm diversification options for farmers

The Beef Edge ·

2024/07/10

Barry Caslin, Teagasc Energy & Rural Development Specialist, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss energy and farm diversification options and the areas for farmers to consider. It is a very big area including: Anaerobic Digestion, Energy, Solar, Electricity, Biomass, Community Energy, Business Diversification, Food Business Start Ups, Agri Tourism, Organics, Forestry, Bio-economy and Agri-Tech. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine recently launched Ireland’s

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17:53

The key messages from the BEEF2024 Dairy Calf-to-Beef...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/07/03

Alan Dillon, Teagasc DairyBeef 500 Manager, is on this week’s Beef Edge Podcast to explain the key messages discussed with farmers who visited the Dairy Calf-to-Beef Village as part of BEEF2024, Teagasc’s National Beef Open Day. Alan outlines the benefits of the Commercial Beef Value (CBV) and how its use at purchase time can result in more profitable and efficient dairy-beef systems. The importance of meeting weight gain targets was also highlighted, with Alan explaining that animals must

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14:33

The Growing Resilient Organic Farming Systems project...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/06/26

With the launch the GROFarmS project taking place today at BEEF 2024 National Beef open day in Teagasc Grange, Teagasc organic specialist, Elaine Leavy, and Teagasc researcher, Kevin Kilcline, join Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the role this research programme will have for anyone interested in converting or currently in organics, as well as detail on the variety of organic events taking place in the coming weeks. GROFarmS stands for Growing Resilient Organic

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19:20

The Findings from the National Farm Survey Small...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/06/19

Emma Dillon and Kevin McNamara from Teagasc join Catherine Egan on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the findings from the recent National Farm Survey Small Farms Report. Teagasc collects farm data through the National Farm Survey (NFS) and this report focuses on the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the approximately 48,000 farms in Ireland that are too small in economic terms for inclusion in the annual NFS survey. What's in the Report?Farm Coverage1. Cattle

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20:14

Updates on the suckler and dairy beef herds in Grange...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/06/12

Teagasc researchers Peter Doyle and Nicky Byrne join Catherine Egan on the latest Beef Edge podcast to give an update on the suckler and dairy beef herds in Grange, what research is currently ongoing in Teagasc Grange and what’s happening at the National Beef Open day BEEF 2024 on Wednesday 26th June. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Securing your future’ and Teagasc are delighted to invite all beef farmers and stakeholders in the Irish beef industry to the event. The focus of BEEF2024

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19:14

Martin Shaughnessy’s suckler-to-weaning system and a...

The Beef Edge ·

2024/06/06

With the upcoming Irish Grassland Association National Beef walk taking place on Tuesday 11th June, suckler and sheep farmer Martin Shaughnessy from Co. Mayo, and the Irish Grassland Association Beef chairperson, Paddy Casey, are on this week’s Beef Edge to discuss Martin’s system and the upcoming open day. Martin runs a suckler-to-weaning system while also lambing approximately 150 ewes – a typical suckler and sheep operation in the west of Ireland. Martin now runs a herd of sixteen

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12:42

Trevor Boland’s update from his autumn calving farm

The Beef Edge ·

2024/05/29

Future Beef farmer, Trevor Boland, who operates an autumn calving suckling system in county Sligo is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an update on the farm including harvesting of silage and management of grass in the coming weeks. With current weather conditions very changeable, Trever discusses how he has some first cut silage harvest and the rest will be made in the coming days. There are currently four groups of stock on the farm grazing and he outlines the management of the

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20:32

Olivia Hynes’ successful mixed grazing in Co. Roscommon

The Beef Edge ·

2024/05/22

For this joint Beef Edge and Ovicast podcast with Catherine Egan and Ciaran Lynch,Future Beef Farmer, Olivia Hynes from Roscommon, discusses how she is managing grass this year and how mixed grazing is working on her farm. Olivia describes the farm system and how this spring has been on the farm. She is using 100% AI with breeding in full swing and she discusses various sires she has selected. Weanlings are targeted for the export sales and Olivia keeps 10-12 heifers as replacements

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17:52

How to maximise the breeding season on your farm

The Beef Edge ·

2024/05/15

Teagasc Researcher, David Kenny, is on this week’s Beef edge podcast to discuss how to deal with current breeding issues and the key tips to be aware of. With extended housing this spring, David outlines the impact this has had on suckler cow fertility and body condition. In some cases breeding season has been delayed by 2-3 weeks. With some cows only calved in the last 3 weeks, David discusses a plan for these cows with synchronisation programmes and timed AI. Further details can also be

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12:46

Management tips for the coming weeks

The Beef Edge ·

2024/05/08

DairyBeef 500 advisor, Tommy Cox, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast with an update on the programme farms, management tips for the coming weeks and he discusses the weaning process. It has been a challenging spring and Tommy outlines the targets on the farms up to weaning. He describes the weaning process on the farms and the amount of concentrates fed to calves at grass. In a lot of cases weanlings were 30-40 kg behind target at housing last autumn and Tommy outlines the management

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