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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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22:21

A Preview of the 2025 National Beef Conference

The Beef Edge ·

2025/11/05

Pearse Kelly, Teagasc’s Head of Drystock, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an insight into what’s in store at the Teagasc National Beef Conference which is taking place on 18th November in the Raheen Woods Hotel, Athenry, Co.Galway, starting at 5pm. This year’s theme is ‘Beef Farming 2025: Value, Profit and Renewal’, with a strong focus on producing high-value weanlings, managing farm profitability, and supporting generational renewal. There are two action-packed sessions

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13:20

Getting Winter Ready Part 3: Health at Housing

The Beef Edge ·

2025/10/29

For the final part of the special series, ‘Getting Winter Ready’, Natascha Meunier from Animal Health Ireland is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss ‘Health at Housing’. As always, there are liver and rumen fluke, lice and mites, and going in to housing, gutworms or lungworm (hoose) might still be problematic. Natascha says to be particularly careful about lungworm as it has been ideal conditions over the last few weeks. She outlines the products for treating worms and fluke

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8:27

John Maher’s Monthly Grass Management Tips

The Beef Edge ·

2025/10/25

Grass10 Manager, John Maher, joins Catherine Egan on the latest Beef Edge with grassland management tips for the month ahead. John discusses current grazing conditions and explains the different scenarios across the country. John discusses an action plan for closing up paddocks and he highlights the importance of being flexible and to ensure swards that are closed are not re-grazed again before winter. You can subscribe to the Grass10 newsletter

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16:43

Getting Winter Ready Part 2: Nutrition

The Beef Edge ·

2025/10/22

James Strain, nutritionist with Inishowen Co-op, is on this week’s Beef Edge Podcast to discuss ‘Winter Nutrition’. James highlights the importance of a good herd health plan which is key before looking at nutrition to maximise winter performance. When assessing silage quality James explains Dry Matter Digestibility, Dry Matter, Crude Protein and pH, while he also discusses feeding rates to gain 0.5-0.6 kg/head/day on a weanling over the winter. When it comes to rations, James highlights

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17:40

Getting Winter Ready Part 1: Winter Housing

The Beef Edge ·

2025/10/15

In the first part of a three-part series, ‘Getting Winter Ready’, on the Beef Edge, Teagasc Beef Specialist, Niall Kerins, discusses ‘Winter Housing’. Housing is a key part of maximising winter performance, farmers can have the nutrition of the animal correct and the animal treated to have them healthy and yet still not be achieving 0.6kg/head/day over the winter period on weanlings. Space allowance is important to determine, how many weanlings/stores/cows should be housed per bay. Feed

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17:51

Beef markets and budgets with David Argue

The Beef Edge ·

2025/10/08

Teagasc Beef Specialist, David Argue, is on this week’s Beef Edge Podcast to discuss beef markets and budgets. David outlines current beef markets and highlights the national weekly kill has risen in the last week of September to 30,000/head. David emphasises the importance of completing a budget tailored to each farm based on input costs and fixed costs of the farm Each budget calculates a breakeven selling price (cents/kg carcase weight) for that particular system and takes account of

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14:05

Financial planning & managing cash flow for the rest...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/10/01

IFAC Accountant, Trevor Boland, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss financial planning and managing cash flow for the rest of the year. Suckler and beef farmers are currently receiving higher prices than ever before for their livestock sales, both through the live trade and through beef prices received from processors. Trevor says that farmers need to be aware of what their farm profits are for 2024: what tax is payable on these profits and what the likely farm income is going

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37:55

Why you need a farm succession plan

The Beef Edge ·

2025/09/24

Teagasc Farm Management specialist, James McDonnell, and Succession Ireland mediator, Clare O’Keeffe, join Catherine Egan and Ciaran Lynch on this week’s joint episode of the Beef Edge podcast and Ovicast to discuss all aspects of generation renewal, succession and mediation. James highlights the importance of Generation renewal while Clare outlines the importance of a mediator to aid the process. It is essential for every farmer to have a farm succession plan in place. There are complex

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12:08

John Maher’s Monthly Grass Management Tips

The Beef Edge ·

2025/09/20

Grass10 Manager, John Maher, joins Catherine Egan for this month's Grass10 update and he discusses the situation across the country, outlining the actions to take to develop an autumn rotation plan on farms Red/Yellow rust has started to appear on grass plants across the country and John discusses management at this stage of the year. You can subscribe to the Grass10 newsletter here:https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/grassland/grass10/grass10-enewsletter/ For more episodes from the Beef Edge

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14:03

Update from the Derrypatrick Herd

The Beef Edge ·

2025/09/17

Teagasc Researcher, Peter Doyle, is on this week’s Beef Edge Podcast with an update on breeding performance and grassland management for the Derrypatrick herd. Peter discusses this year’s calves’ performance and weaning management. Peter also outlines how he is managing red clover on the farm currently and how it has performed to date. Plus he explains the plan for finishing cattle and the current research taking place on the farm. For more episodes from the Beef Edge podcast, visit the

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32:20

Matt Dempsey on Brazilian beef and the future of the...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/09/10

On this special 300th episode of the Beef Edge podcast, Matt Dempsey, whose career spans multiple decades and various roles in agricultural journalism and beyond joins host Catherine Egan. Matt has been instrumental in driving innovations in Irish agriculture through his work as a journalist, farmer and chairman of various industry groups and he gives his outlook for the Irish beef industry. Matt discusses intervention, suckler incentive scheme, beef tribunal, BSE and Foot and Mouth to

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15:27

The Beef Welfare Scheme – what you need to know

The Beef Edge ·

2025/09/03

Margaret Brennan, Assistant Principal Officer over Beef Schemes with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the new Beef Welfare Scheme announced recently and to give an update on all things scheme related. The objective of the Beef Welfare Scheme 2025 (BWS) is to further increase the economic efficiency of and enhance animal health and husbandry on suckler farms. You can apply if you: - are aged eighteen years or over on the date

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12:42

DairyBeef 500 farmer, Peter O'Hanrahan, explains his...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/08/27

DairyBeef 500 farmer, Peter O'Hanrahan from Co. Kilkenny, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss his dairy beef system, grassland management on the farm and the upcoming farm walk taking place. Peter explains how calves are sourced from five farms within 15 minutes of his own farm. They are reared on automatic feeding system which he discusses in detail . They are grazed in two groups with lighter calves forming a third group and rotated every 3 days in a paddock system. Currently,

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17:53

Michael Biggins on his spring calving suckling to...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/08/20

Future Beef farmer, Michael Biggins from Co Mayo, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss his suckler beef system, weanling management on the farm and the upcoming farm walk taking place on his farm. Michael farms with his son Niall in Ballynalty, Headford, Co.Mayo and he gives an overview of his spring calving suckling to weanling system. All suitable heifers are kept on the farm for breeding and those not kept are sold. This year AI was used on over half the cows as well as a

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9:40

John Maher’s August Grass Management Tips

The Beef Edge ·

2025/08/16

Grass10 Manager, John Maher, joins Catherine Egan on the latest Beef Edge with grassland management tips for the month ahead. John discusses current grazing conditions and explains the different scenarios across the country. He also details an action plan for dealing with drought, deficit and surpluses and he highlights the plan for the weeks ahead to ensure quality swards are available for building covers going into the autumn. You can subscribe to the Grass10 newsletter

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17:24

Drystock Sustainable Grassland Farmer of the Year,...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/08/13

The winner of the Drystock Sustainable Grassland Farmer of the Year, Peter Byrne from Co Kildare, and Dairy Beef 500 advisor, Fergal Maguire, are on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss Peter’s dairy beef system, grassland management on the farm and the upcoming walk taking place there. Peter’s current system is 19- 22 month heifers and 22-26 months steer beef. Up until 2008, he was running a suckling to beef and sheep enterprise on the farm, alongside a tillage enterprise. Over time,

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18:11

How to increase efficiency and reduce emissions

The Beef Edge ·

2025/08/06

Teagasc Climate and Sustainability advisor, Enda Geoghegan from Ballina Co. Mayo, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss actions implemented on farms that increase efficiency while reducing emissions and the recent findings from the Signpost Programme Report . Farmers participating in the Dairy Beef 500 and Future Beef Programmes are also part of the Signpost Programme and Enda explains how he liaises with the local advisors, programme advisors and ASSAP programme advisors in his

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14:22

The Long Established Young Farmer scheme & update on...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/07/30

Teagasc Head of Schemes Support Unit, Aidan Murray, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast with an update on the upcoming scheme deadlines and the newly launched Long Established Young Farmer scheme. The maximum payment for this is €5,000 per eligible farmer and Aidan discusses the criteria these farmers will have to meet to be able to apply. Further details are

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12:52

The benefits of joining the National Genotyping...

The Beef Edge ·

2025/07/23

Mark Waters from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss the National Genotyping Programme which has recently opened for applications. The National Genotyping Programme is a collaborative initiative enabling Ireland to take the first step in achieving a fully genotyped national herd, based on a cost-sharing model between the Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine, the beef and dairy industry and participating farmers. Genotyping

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9:07

John Maher's July Grass Management Tips

The Beef Edge ·

2025/07/19

Grass10 Manager, John Maher, joins Catherine Egan on the latest Beef Edge with grassland management tips for the month ahead. John discusses current grazing conditions and explains the different scenarios across the country. He also details an action plan for dealing with drought, deficit and surpluses and he highlights the plan for the weeks ahead to ensure quality swards are available for building covers going into the autumn. You can subscribe to the Grass10 newsletter

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