Beef

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  Strong prices bringing store cattle out early

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  Eamon O’Connell: How to get the best value when dosing for fluke and worms

  

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  Factories’ hunger for volume driving up prices – especially for heavier carcases

  

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  Trump won't be able to save the struggling US beef industry

  

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  What a 19th-century emigrant beef baron’s rise and fall can teach our sector

  

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  €30,000 heifers, the mart on TV in the pubs and packed hotels: Why the Carrick Winter Fair is a Mecca for beef farmers

  

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  How we got our facilities up to scratch on our new farm – without breaking the bank

  

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  How we got our facilities up to scratch on our new farm – without breaking the bank

  

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  ‘Outrageous’ prices paid as heavy continental cull cows make nearly as much as prime beef

  

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  Eamon O’Connell: Get the clippers out – why it’s a good idea to give your animals a haircut

  

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  Angus hitting €6/kg – but ‘room for further improvements’ across the board

  

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  Galway breeder cashes in as Lucky Day Competitions break price record in Carrick

  

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  ‘Why Salers are the only breed for us –and how they are ideal for Irish suckler farming’

  

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  Demand for heavy Angus lifts mart prices again – and finishers confident sums will add up

  

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  ‘Protests became an out-of-control beast’ – BeefPlan chair Eamon Corley

  

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  Why it is worth spending time and money on mineral supplementation

  

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  Beef prices hit €6.00/kg on the ground – but can the good times keep rolling?

  

• The local buzzard is attacking my silage bales and causing mould – but I have a few plans to stop him

  

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  French supermarket giant says ‘non’ to meat from Mercosur

  

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  New calf pneumonia detection technique hailed as a potential game-changer

  

• Major meatpacker sees no relief from high Brazil cattle prices

  

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  Soaring store prices breathe life back into suckler sector

  

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  Festive demand drives steer and heifer quotes up 5-10c/kg

  

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  Eamon O’Connell: Cattle snoring can be the sign of a serious medical condition – so don’t just sleep on it

  

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  ‘All part-time suckler farmers should consider this breed’ – Westmeath breeder explains why Parthenaise are the way forward

  

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  Wintering stores didn’t make financial sense for me last year. So am I just a busy fool?

  

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  Robin Talbot: Why we might reverse our long-held policy of closing up grazing ground

  

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  Factories slammed for ‘scaremongering’ amid rumours of post-festive beef price slump

  

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  Don’t kill the Irish beef sector to close a lucrative Mercosur trade deal

  

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  Farmers driving mart prices higher and higher – but have they done the sums?

  

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  Water is the most vital input for our cattle – so make sure your troughs are fit for purpose

  

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  How this family suckler farm in the Burren branched into dairy and eggs

  

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  ‘Farmer confidence is at an all-time high’ – Mart prices soar despite continuing high numbers

  

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  Beef prices keep climbing but lower kill-out weights could force rethink from factories

  

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  Weighing the options: Grass finishing vs. meal feeding at Newford Farm

  

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  Beef Prices: Quotes rise 5-10c/kg – with Angus and Hereford making up to €5.55/kg flat price

  

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  Eamon O’Connell: Animal health is 10pc what happens to your herd and 90pc how you react to it

  

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  Mart prices buoyant despite drop-off in quality as numbers start to fall away

  

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  ‘Speckle Parks are a no-brainer if you want low-cost, hassle-free, profitable suckler farming’

  

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  Continental genes are paying off when I take my stock to the factory

  

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  This winter fattening season is going to be tough – here’s how to make a success of it

  

• Brazil in talks to gain Chinese approval for more meat plants

  

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  Prices keep on rising despite weekly kill soaring above 40,000

  

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  Nitrates Derogation required for dairy-beef farms to hit €500/ha profit target

  

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  Cattle ‘getting dearer by the day’ – Farmers cash in as mart prices climb amid pre-winter rush

  

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  Lowest beef kill in 4 years forecast for 2025

  

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  Ireland urged to build own veal industry as scrutiny mounts on live exports

  

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  How going polled opened up markets as far off as Mongolia for this pedigree Simmental breeder

  

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  Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farm dates, pre-nups and free labour – your guide to dating a farmer, sector by sector

  

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  Farmers can’t ignore the facts: red meat is losing the battle for consumers

  

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  Dairy’s growing influence on beef sector reflected in falling carcass weights

  

• Australia cashes in on beef exports as US cattle herd shrinks

  

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  Avoiding SCEP training course is not an option – the penalty is too severe

  

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  Lab-grown meat is proving to be a grotesque misadventure

  

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  Wondering if September is too early to wean calves? Our Newford experience proves otherwise

  

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  John Heney: My liveweights are down 12-15kg – and I partly blame myself

  

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  Robin Talbot: How to make sure we breed stock that can gain weight quicker

  

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  Surge in demand drives up price of Friesian steers – and overall mart numbers set to drop

  

• An Bord Pleanála won’t contest challenge to Banagher meat factory

  

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  ‘Suckler star ratings overly favour dairy-bred stock and will cost me €200-300 per calf’

  

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  Eamon O’Connell: My guide to managing out-of-season health risks on the farm this autumn

  

• An Bord Pleanála won’t contest challenge to meat factory

  

• Factory quotes rise as Friesian steers make €5/kg flat

  

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  Base quotes for bullocks set to hit €5.10/kg this week, with heifers on €5.15/hd

  

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  ‘Our calving jack makes a great coat stand’ – how genetics have transformed this Clare suckler farm

  

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  Peter Hynes: As a farmer, I can’t ignore the truth - we must take ownership of issues exposed by Prime Time doc

  

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  How ruthless culling of his pedigree Blonde d’Aquitaine herd took this Cork suckler farmer to the top

  

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  Do Teagasc’s finishing figures add up?

  

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  No change to quotes – but prices are rising across the globe

  

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  Trade 50c/kg stronger than this time last year as farmers with stock sold look to go again

  

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  How ‘Ireland’s first glamping farm’ is now ‘training Co Cork’s youngest farm-hands’

  

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  Some factories attempt to pull prices on back of broken weather

  

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  ‘One day one of the farmers told me, Jim, you’ll never make money working for someone else’

  

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  Don’t overlook the benefits of including maize silage in livestock diet

  

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  How I plan to achieve an average daily gain of 0.6kg for my weanlings this winter

  

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  Ageing and succession: ‘Us older farmers need to wake up and hand over to the younger people before it’s too late’

  

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  Angus and Hereford the main movers as Ploughing keeps mart numbers down and prices high

  

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  Factory quotes expected to stay high until Christmas

  

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  Gillian O’Sullivan: Why Irish farmers need a major rethink around dosing

  

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  Eamon O’Connell: New vet schools won’t fix our biggest problem – and new vet med regs will be a disaster

  

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  Robin Talbot: How to decide the best date to let the bulls to the cows and the heifers