The Beef Edge

Apr 01 2025 281 ep. 16 mins 48
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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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The benefits of grass-white clover and multi-species sward systems

Apr 01 2025 13 mins  
Teagasc researcher, Sarah Burke, is on this week’s Beef edge podcast to discuss her latest research on grass-white clover and multi-species sward systems. A source of inefficiency in beef cattle production systems is the failure to meet live weight targets throughout the animals’ lifetime, resulting in animals being older at slaughter. Consequently, lifetime production costs,

April Grass Management Tips

Mar 28 2025 7 mins  
Grass10 Advisor Niamh Doyle has her grassland management tips for the month ahead. Niamh comments on current grazing conditions, grazing the first rotation and regrowths on the first paddocks.She also discusses closing up for silage and the importance of completing a fodder budget and using slurry efficiently. It is critical to assess the correct balance between quality and quantit

Reviewing beef prices and budgets for the coming months

Mar 25 2025 16 mins  
Teagasc Beef Specialist, David Argue, is on this week’s Beef Edge discussing cattle finished so far this year and, given current increasing beef prices, budgets for the coming months. So far this year up to March 16th, 398,076 cattle have been finished according to the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine. This is an increase of almost 11,000 head of cattle in comparison

Future Beef farmer, Proinnsias Creedon, on managing grass this spring

Mar 19 2025 13 mins  
Teagasc Future Beef farmer, Proinnsias Creedon, and his advisor, James Mullane, are on this week’s Beef Edge Podcast with an update on the farm and how Proinnsias is managing grass this spring. Proinnsias also explains his calf-to-beef system and how he manages balancing working off farm. The excellent paddock system on the farm has been a big benefit to improving his grazing ma

Reviewing the 2024 profitability of the Future Beef Programme

Mar 11 2025 16 mins  
Teagasc Future Beef programme advisor, Aisling Molloy, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an update on the Future Beef programme and to review profitability for 2024. Aisling first discusses the plan at the moment to get cattle to grass across the country. On review of the eProfit Monitor, the profitability for farmers in the programme has increased in 2024. But there

March Grass Management Tips

Mar 07 2025 7 mins  
Grass10 Advisor Niamh Doyle has her grass management tips for the month ahead. Niamh discusses turn out of cattle and the spring rotation plan on farms and she highlights the key targets this spring. Niamh encourages farmers to apply slurry on soils that require Phosphorus and Potassium, particularly the silage ground. Based on soil samples and a nutrient management plan Niamh also

Parasite control and anthelmintic resistance

Mar 04 2025 13 mins  
Teagasc Researcher, Orla Keane, is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to discuss parasite control and anthelmintic resistance. Orla highlights the importance of reviewing your farm health plan at this time of year and she discusses the project that she is involved in called the, ‘Managing Anthelmintic Resistance in Cattle Sustainably' (MARCS) project. MARCS is a collaborative pr

Fergal Maguire’s advice for milk replacer feeding

Feb 25 2025 12 mins  
Teagasc DairyBeef 500 advisor, Fergal Maguire, discusses key tips around milk replacer to maximise performance on this week’s Beef Edge podcast. Fergal explains the pros and cos around skim based or whey based milk replacer before outlining the concentrate of replacer and its components. Temperature of milk is very important, he says, as well as consistency of feeding at the same

Calf housing tips to maximise performance

Feb 18 2025 14 mins  
Teagasc DairyBeef 500 advisor, Tommy Cox, discusses calf housing to maximise performance on this week’s Beef Edge podcast. Tommy says that good ventilation, adequate space, good drainage and warm sheds that are clean and comfortable are essential. Good ventilation to ensure air is fresh and no draughts are important. Natural ventilation is used in the vast majority of calf houses

Fertiliser application and the fertiliser register

Feb 11 2025 19 mins  
Continuing the two-part series on fertiliser application, Teagasc specialist Mark Plunkett from the Teagasc Signpost programme, joins Catherine Egan on the Beef Edge podcast to discuss fertiliser application and the fertiliser register. Mark reviewed 2024 regarding fertiliser usage and particularly chemical N. There was a 10% increase, he said, compared to 2023. Chemical N use was