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Episode four of theTullamore Farm webinar series takes place on Tuesday at 8.30pm live on www.ifj.ie/webinar.
The final episode in the Tullamore Farm webinar series takes place on Tuesday night at 8.30pm.
Tuesday s programme will focus on the 2020 financial performance and the next steps for the farm.
This is currently the fifth year of a 15-year lease taken out on the farm.
Unique
The farm is quite unique in that it has no single farm payment, while also having to pay a full land charge and full labour charge.
The farm is also paying back over €20,000 annually in interest on borrowed money.
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This March 2019-born Belgian Blue heifer was scanned in-calf and due on 13/12/2021 and sold for £7,500.
The Jalex brand is recognised all over the country for show-quality cattle and James Alexander’s recent venture into on-farm sales has proven a big hit with suckler buyers.
Having completed a number of successful open days in the past, 2020 saw the Alexander family hold their first on-farm sale, followed by another very successful on-farm sale last Saturday.
Auctioneer Richard Beattie had a mammoth task, with over 200 in-calf heifers going through the ring.
Bidding was ringside and online, attracting buyers from all over Ireland and further afield.
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Cooltomin Pearl Lucky, which, along with her October 2020-born heifer calf, sold for the top price of €4,700.
Tommy Liston from Ardagh in Co Limerick hosted the dispersal sale of his Cooltomin Angus herd in Kilmallock last Saturday, with prices peaking at €4,700.
Taking the top price was the cow and calf pairing of Cooltomin Pearl Lucky 1300 and Cooltomin Tina 1392.
The three-year-old dam is a daughter of the highly-rated Netherton Americano and sold scanned in-calf and due December to Mogeely Joe.
Her October 2020-born heifer calf s sire is the successful Canadian AI bull HF Rebel.
Both mother and daughter boast five stars on the replacement index.
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This March 2017-born Limousin cow sold with her January 2021-born bull calf at foot for €2,420.
Demand for sucklers continues to be strong, with lots of customers for top of the range outfits.
Carrigallen Mart held a special suckler sale on Monday which included dispersals of herds from two Co Cavan farmers.
Top call of the night went to a May 2018 Belgian Blue heifer. She has a five-star replacement index of €113 and was scanned in calf to a Limousin stock bull with her time up in mid-March. She sold for €3,100.
A price of €3,060 was paid for a 2015-born four-star Belgian Blue/Limousin-cross cow with her time up in March to a Limousin bull.