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February 21, 2021 1:00 pm On Wednesday last (February 17), David McLaughlin a participant in the Better Farm Sheep Programme spoke at the Teagasc Hill Sheep Conference. David was joined by his Teagasc advisor John Cannon on the night to discuss how the farm has progressed since joining the programme in 2008. David runs both a hill and lowland flock of ewes as well as keeping 17 autumn-calving suckler cows. The farm is broken up into three main blocks, consisting of both hill and lowland (green) ground. The breakdown is as follows:  Home farm: 9.55 adjusted hectares (green land/improved hill ground); Hill farm: 14.74 adjusted hectares (green land/improved hill) and 120ha of hill;

Donegal farm excelling through farm planning and performance monitoring

SHARING OPTIONS: Hill ewes are not housed, except in unusual circumstances and are generally not fed silage/hay but are offered feed blocks and concentrates at times during the winter and in the lead up to lambing. A major component of the McLaughlin’s farm plan was designing a breeding policy to allow the hill flock to produce sufficient replacement ewe lambs for both the hill and lowland flocks. \ Clive Wasson Previous Next David and Linda McLaughlin farm just outside Greencastle in Co Donegal and have been participating in the Teagasc BETTER Farm sheep programme since 2009, running both lowland and hill sheep enterprises alongside a herd of suckler cows. This year marks the end of David and Linda’s time in the programme and is a good chance to look at some of the key elements of their farming system.