Podcast
Mike Clohessy is milking 75 black and white cows in Fedamore, Co. Limerick where one Lely A4 robot and a strict breeding routine is paving the way for high solids and good work/life balance. Mike also has a full-time job off farm as the director of the genetic company, Bullwise CRV and is able to manage dairy farming with his job with the help of the robot. Mike talks about his breeding programme and how he wants to breed a cow with good capacity, with an ability to intake large quantities of grass and can convert this to 600kg of...
Agri-Business
A total of 25 farmers to date have applied for a robotic milking machine in both TAMS II and TAMS 3, recent DAFM figures show.
Dairy
After being 20 years away from dairy farming, Kilkenny dairy farmer, Sean Meehan has made the plunge back to milking cows in order to...
DeLaval unveils the 2025 model of its voluntary milking system (VMS) V300 series. The new robot is developed in close collaboration with...
Automated milk extraction is almost the last item in a long list of benefits that robotics can bring to a modern dairy farm.
Dairy farmer, Jonathan Owens produces a natural live yogurt by the name of 'Greenfield Yogurts' and his product is set to hit the shelves...
Buildings
When converting beef housing to a brand new dairy unit, Robert Patton carried out a lot of research to find the technology and equipment
Michael Guinan farms in partnership with his son Kevin and wife Concepta in Ballingcloghan, Co. Offaly where their Montbeliarde herd...
The second stop of the IGA summer tour took us to the farm of Roy and Trevor Cobbe where they have found their farm partnership very...
Beef
The owners of an upland farm in Co. Antrim have purchased additional land and invested significantly in diversification and automation.
N.Ireland
Securing optimal levels of carbon reduction within a robotic milking enterprise was the focus of a recent farm walk.
Machinery
The role of the plough is under scrutiny as never before, with alternative cultivation methods being heavily promoted, and some groups .
Dairy Technical
Keeping things simple can often been the easiest way of making dairy farms as nicer place to work for staff.
Dairy Focus
Agriland has decided to revisit some of the most popular and interesting Dairy Focus articles from 2023, in a ‘Dairy throwback‘ series.
For this week’s Dairy Focus, Agriland attend Ireland's largest robotic grazing farm, which is based on Co. Meath.
Dairy News
Lely Atlantic last week held its hybrid event entitled ‘Farmer’s Panel and Webinar on Herd Health & Reliability’.
Machinery business Lely Mullingar is setting up a further base of operations in Ireland to serve customers in the southeast of the country.
Video
Co. Kilkenny dairy farmer Sean Meehan switched to robotic milking five years ago. Watch him discuss his transition in this video.
On day one of the National Ploughing Championships, Agriland learned what the initial stages of making a move to robotic milking looks like.
Recently, DeLaval held an open day on robotic milking on the farm of Seamus and James Bourke in Co. Cork.
Approximately, 40 new farming entrants started up within Northern Ireland’s dairy sector during 2021, and this growth looks set to continue.
Opinion
Union dairy committee chairman Mervyn Gordon inferred that automation is not a silver bullet when it comes to solving the labour crisis
Rural Life
%%excerpt%% 'Pure skincare fresh from the farm' is the tagline of a rural enterprise that enjoyed a boost in business during lockdown and is currently expanding its workshop space.
