The Dairy Edge

Jan 30 2025 532 ep. 24 mins 255
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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

Jan 30 2025 4 mins  
On this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses completing your opening AFC on PastureBase Ireland and previews the upcoming Spring Pasture Morning events throughout the country. Link to this week’s Grass10 newsletter: https://bit.ly/Grass10-28thJanuary For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.teagasc.ie/animals

How to best meet herd feed requirements this spring

Jan 27 2025 25 mins  
Teagasc ruminant nutritionist, Dr Aisling Claffey, joins James Dunne on this week's Dairy Edge podcast to discuss how to best meet the nutritional needs of the calved dairy cow throughout early lactation. Aisling outlines the energy requirements required to minimise body condition loss and optimise animal performance over the spring period and how these can be met with a simple di

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

Jan 23 2025 3 mins  
On this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses all things Nutrient Management Week which is across all Grass10 social media accounts this week and he encourages farmers to get out and complete an opening AFC on PastureBase Ireland. Link to this week’s Grass10 newsletter:https://bit.ly/Grass10-21stJanuary For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast g

What to consider when spreading organic fertilisers at this time of year

Jan 21 2025 31 mins  
Cathal Somers, Water Quality Specialist with Teagasc, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge to discuss spreading organic fertilisers. Cathal gives a summary of the factors that need to be considered before spreading slurry or manure even though the closed period has ended. Cathal sympathises with the challenges farmers face trying to make this decision as it can be a chal

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

Jan 16 2025 3 mins  
For this week’s Grass10 grazing management update, Joseph Dunphy discusses getting soil samples completed while ground conditions are good and he highlights the upcoming Nutrient Management Week on our social media channels. Link to this week’s Grass10 newsletter:https://bit.ly/Grass10-14thJanuary For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at:https://www.

How to prepare for the busy spring period without compromising on performance

Jan 13 2025 32 mins  
Monaghan dairy farmer, Paddy Traynor, joins James Dunne on this week’s Dairy Edge to outline his simple grass based block spring calving system that is capable of producing a good economic return. Paddy explains what he does to ensure he is best prepared for calving, while explaining how he manages labour on a part-time basis. Plus he explains how he has adopted several simple

Planning for grass growth in 2025

Jan 06 2025 36 mins  
John Maher, Manager of the Teagasc Grass10 Programme joins Stuart Childs to discuss the grass growing year of 2024 and what we can learn from it for 2025. John discusses several elements that people can control to help drive grass growth on their farms. Getting the basics right is what makes the difference. Soil fertility has always been important but it is more important still whe

The Grass10 Grazing Year in Review

Dec 19 2024 15 mins  
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 PastureBase Ireland. Here also is the link to the Grass10 end of year webinar:https://bit.ly/Grass10WebinarRecording For more episodes from the Dairy Edge p

Your Weekly Grass10 Update

Dec 11 2024 4 mins  
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. Plus, this week’s featured farmer is Sustainable Grassland Farmer of the Year for 2023, Patrick O’Neill from Co. Longford. Link to this week’s Grass10 new

The key messages from the Dairy Conference workshops

Dec 09 2024 40 mins  
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 there were six practical workshops which farmers could choose to attend which would benefit their own farms in the future. These included:• Meeting Herd feed