All Episodes

Weaning - management tasks and performance checks

What you need to know about the Fodder Support Scheme

The latest on the finishing systems for hill bred lambs post weaning study

Update on the companion forage study

Update from the BETTER farms

Parasite Control TASAH Consult

The key factors in producing high quality silage

Silage – why quality matters

Getting clover into the system

Update from the Regional Veterinary Lab

Nematodirus in lambs

Farmer focus: James Johnston - Grass, silage and clover in Co. Kildare

Grassland Focus: Priorities for April

Supplementing triplet rearing and yearling ewes post-lambing

Managing artificial reared lambs – transitioning off milk

Tackling Joint Ill

Dealing with Orf

Investigating flock health problems

Hill sheep conference preview

Colostrum Part 2: Impact on the lamb

Colostrum Part 1: what influences ewe production

Planning ahead with a fertiliser budget

Opening covers, fertiliser and planning ahead

National Sheep Conference preview

Why it’s time to soil sample

Farmer focus: Shane Moore, housing scanning and feeding plans

Farmer Focus: Tomás O’Toole and his lamb finishing in the west

The EuroSheep project

Farmer focus: Eddie Gavin wintering on forage crops

The feed value of winter grazing

Update on the Sheep Welfare Scheme

Measuring methane in sheep – breeding for lower emissions

Animal Health Awareness week – focus on AMR

The importance of the Clean Livestock Policy

Choosing the appropriate liver fluke dose

Why you should consider temporary grazing

Cleaning out swards and closing up on time

The benefits of raddling rams

Farmer focus: Brian Nicholson - breeding season kicking off in Kilkenny

A group with a difference: Ólas Hill Farms

Time to consider plunge dipping

Farmer focus: John Joe Fitzgerald – a hill farm in transition

Joining ewe lambs – what to consider

Forage crops: can they carry store lambs to finish?

A field, a marquee, an auctioneer and 4000 sheep: the Cooley Sheep Breeders Association sale

Pre-breeding vaccination: toxoplasmosis and enzootic abortion

Quarantine treating bought in stock

Time to check the ram team and settle new rams in

Genotyping – a step forward this season

Synchronising ewes

The role of cobalt supplementation

Teagasc BETTER farm flocks – lamb growth & weaning

Don’t dose and move –short term gain vs long term

Replacing silage offtakes and maintaining soil fertility

Market update - what’s influencing trends this year to date

Sm@RT – precision livestock farming for sheep

Weighing up the companion forages

Getting clover into the system – consider over-sowing?

Blowfly: risk factors, control options and application procedure

Checking the finances

Farmer Focus: Paddocks, residuals, regrowth and measuring performance in Co Louth

Lambing review – where can we improve

Dealing with scald in lambs and lameness issues early in the grazing season

Nematodirus – signs, treatment & differential diagnosis

Grazing focus - early season management

Lambing one year old ewes – the farmer experience

Identifying the problem ewes during lambing

Artificially rearing lambs – the key points

Farmer focus: Des Powell - Flock Expansion in Co. Tipperary

The causes, timing and on-farm practices associated with lamb mortality and the steps to reduce the incidence this Spring

Spring fertiliser – the key considerations

BETTER Farm Hill flock update

Sheep market focus and outlook for 2021

Farmer Focus: John O’Connell – Scanning, feeding and managing ewes in Co. Leitrim

Focus on Vaccination

Feeding for late pregnancy

Fluke control at this stage of the season

Housing and feed management

Out wintering on forage crops

Using scanning results

Silage sampling

Health and Safety focus

Managing condition in ewes during mid-pregnancy

Sheep health- views from a Regional Vet Lab post-mortem room

Ram management post-mating

External parasites control options

Grazing management – graze outs in difficult conditions and staying on track for closing

Store lamb finishing

Farmer focus: Francis Gonely, breeding, grass and finishing lambs

Mating Management

Quad bike maintenance

Fluke control this autumn

Joining ewe lambs – the key criteria that influence performance

Farmer focus: Denis O’Riordan on hill farming, selling lambs and managing ewes in West Cork

Forage crops – carrying capacity & grazing setup

Managing autumn reseeds

Autumn shearing – performance benefit?

Getting ewe condition right

August grassland management focus

Farmer focus: John Bell – paddock system & finishing groups