Lessons Learned from the Teagasc Heavy Soils Programme
The Teagasc Heavy Soils Programme was set up in 2011 to develop a network of dairy farms on poorly drained soils to act as a test bed for strategies and management practices that could be implemented to improve the efficiency and performance of farms dominated by such soils, which account for 30% of grasslands nationally.
Today, Teagasc has published a new booklet - ‘Lessons learned - key findings of the Teagasc Heavy Soils programme’. This new publication outlines the development of the participating farms over the last ten years. Its publication coincides with the takeover of Teagasc social media accounts today, by one of the participants in the Heavy Soils Programme, Danny Bermingham, to outline what is happening on his farm in County Clare.
06 May 2021
Type Event Proceeding
On Thursday, 6th May, Danny Bermingham, participant in the Teagasc Heavy Soils programme hosted a virtual event from his farm through the medium of video and social media.
On Thursday, 6th May, Danny Bermingham, 2018 Disadvantaged Land Grassland Farmer of the Year and Teagasc Heavy Soils programme participant took us through a day in the life on his heavy soils dairy farm in Doonbeg, Co. Clare through the use of video and social media.
You can watch back the footage below and gain an insight into how Danny operates his farm and how he achieves such high performance from grass on a heavy soils farm.
Event Time All day
Venue Social Media Join Danny Bermingham on our social media accounts as he takes us through a day in the life on his heavy soils dairy farm
About Danny
Danny is the 2018 Disadvantaged Land Grassland Farmer of the Year. He farms with his wife Yvonne in Co. Clare, and together they run a 100+ cow spring calving herd. Most of their farm is heavy soils with some peat soils but they still manage to have a have a grass based system of milk production. How do they achieve this? The answer is through excellent grazing infrastructure along with a flexible approach to grazing animals.