Beef
We speak to UCD PhD student Ciaran McGee from Trim, Co. Meath, who is researching the nutrition of dairy heifer calves and dairy-beef calves.
Beef News
UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science lecturer Alan Kelly highlights maximising early calf live weight gain in dairy-beef systems.
Agriland met up with professor of Ruminant Nutrition, Tommy Boland for an update on the UCD Long-Term Grazing Platform Study.
On a visit to the UCD Lyons Farm, Agriland caught up with ABP's Aideen Bates to discuss the initiative sourcing calves for ABP suppliers.
The 2026 spring-calving season is in full swing on John Twohigs' dairy and beef farm in Bandon, Co....
The ABP Food Group Advantage Beef Programme team has highlighted a few points for farmers to consider before their calves arrive this spring.
The autumn-2025-born calves are all weaned off milk and thriving well on Michael and Kieran Dunnes' dairy-beef farm near Trim, Co. Meath.
All 2024-born dairy-beef cattle from Pat Carty's farm near Tobercurry in Co. Sligo achieved impressive grades, weights, and slaughter ages.
Co. Kilkenny-based suckler beef farmer, Jimmy Madigan has secured just over €11,000 in grant aid...
Sheep
Every year, the ABP Demo Farm runs a store lamb system alongside its dairy-calf-to-beef system on...
ABP Demo Farm manager Sean Maher takes a look back at how 2025 went on the demo farm, with a focus on carcass weights, grades and calf growth,
ABP's Aideen Bates takes a look at just some of the key initiatives facilitated by the Advantage Beef Programme in 2025.
ABP Food Group farm liaison officer Sean Cassidy recently visited an under-16-month bull beef system on a suckler farm based in Co. Monaghan.
In October, Agriland paid a visit to two young Co. Meath farmers to see how they are managing to buy calves with no up-front payment.
In this update from the Co. Carlow ABP Demo Farm, we take a look at the performance of cattle slaughtered this autumn.
Pat Carthy's farm is one of eight ABP Monitor Farms that are finishing cattle in a variety of systems and based around the country.
An update on the performance of the cattle groups in the the UCD/ABP sward trial has been provided by Prof. Tommy Boland.
A total of 164 of the 2024-born dairy-beef heifers on the ABP Demo Farm have now been...
Farming outside Trim in Co. Meath is Michael Dunne, a dairy-calf-to-beef farmer rearing both autumn and spring-born calves
The Dollard family farm in Urlingford, Co. Kilkenny was recently awarded the 'Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions' title....
Agriland travelled to a dairy-beef farm in Trim, Co. Meath to meet a farmer who is availing of funding to install fencing along watercourses
Young farmers who are in the process of building or buying their own home while trying to build...
In the October update from the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow, farm manager Sean Maher discusses the kill out results of first heifers...
