Tag: Teagasc

Richard Bond from Vicarstown was recently honoured by Teagasc as the winner of silage competition recognising best practice in the farming sector.  Following judging from...

The history of rural Ireland and the history of the country are deeply intertwined - and that was very evident this week at the...

Traditionally in Ireland family farms in Ireland have been passed onto the next generation on death. In recent times social and economic changes have resulted...

The number of dairy cows has increased in Laois by almost 65% in the last eight years, according to figures recently released by Teagasc...

The Government is now taking action to prevent a fodder shortage this winter, according to Laois/Offaly TD and Minister for Justice & Equality, Charlie...

Teagasc held a seeding/Grazing Infrastructure Event on July 5 2018. The event took place on the farm of John Mulhall in Ballyroan. The was comprised of...

The lifting of milk quotas in 2013 has opened up dairy farming like never before - and with more beef and tillage farmers moving...

Things were very different when Larry O'Loughlin landed a job with the Laois County Committee of Agriculture in early 1978. The Rosenallis native had completed...

In the last week of October in 1967, a group of 25 young men enrolled in a course run by the Laois County Committee...

A Laois farmer has bravely recounted the effect which his on-farm accident had on him and his family. Dominic Leonard, a drystock farmer based along...

I attended the most recent Teagasc Spring Seminar, on the farm of David Walsh-Kemis, outside Stradbally in Laois. Shay Phelan from Teagasc was on hand...

Laois farmers were encouraged to explore all the opportunities available to them at an ‘Expand your Horizons’ event on Monday night, organized by Teagasc...