The 2023 graduates of the Teagasc/UCD Level 7 Professional Diploma in Dairy Farm Management course were presented with their diplomas at an awards ceremony at Teagasc Moorepark in late December, with a County Limerick graduate winning the Overall Student of the Year award.
Teagasc and Goldcrop have signed a long term grass and clover genetic improvement agreement this week at the Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day. The new breeding and commercialisation collaboration will be called 'Pasture Innovations' and was successfully negotiated following an open tendering process.
James Spillane farms near Conna village in East Cork. James and his daughter Rachel have a dairy farming partnership and milk 120 Friesian cows. Milk is supplied to TirLán Co-Op and their herd is both autumn and spring calving but they are moving to a 100% spring calving herd.