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Glanbia Connect | Agri & Farm Management Online

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Glanbia Connect Is An Online Agri & Farm Management Hub For Sustainable, Profitable Farming in Ireland. Visit Our Online Farm Supplies Store.

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Teagasc | Agriculture and Food Development Authority

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Teagasc is the state agency providing research, advisory and education in agriculture, horticulture, food and rural development in Ireland.

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The main objective of the farm in the next 5 years is to utilise all grounds available for grazing and increase stocking rates to maximise production from the grazing area.

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Spring calving 120 cows

Autumn calving 80 cows

68ha current grazing platform

1.2 tonne concentrates/ cow

Supplying glanbia (liquid milk contract)

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Grasstec Agricultural Services - Experts for your farming needs

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Grasstec offer a wide range of services & products to the agricultural & commercial sector in Ireland, the UK & mainland Europe

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PastureBase Ireland. PastureBaseIreland is a grassland management decision support tool and a mechanism to capture background data on farms.

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Start grass measuring + upload data to pasture base

Map farm professionally

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- Little to no reseeding carried out recently

- Distances cows must walk to paddocks

- Heavy soil type

- Typically late spring turnout and early autumn housing

- No grass measuring taking place, lack of info. about productivity of paddocks

- Fencing improvements needed (improve permanent fencing)

- Labour (time consuming machinery work)

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Complete draining + reclamation of new land

Soil test

Continue to measure grass

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Improve existing Infrastructure

Install  new Infrastructure

Continue to measure grass

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Begin reseeding program

Soil test

Continue to measure grass

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- Soil test completed 2017

- 2 tonne/acre lime applied November 2018

- Own machinery (flexibility when reseeding and taking out paddocks during summer)

- In parlour feeders allow easy supplementation of concentrate

-Member of dairy discussion group

- 60% spring calving & 40% autumn calving (allows for higher stocking rates)

- Diet feeder allows for high quality supplementation at shoulders of the year

- Rarely suffer from drought

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Begin weed control program

Continue to measure grass

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-  Grass measure & upload info. to PBI

- Expand grazing platform and utilize ground that was previously only cut for silage

- Increase cow numbers and stocking rates

- Spread more fertilizer (not at derogation limit)

- Purchase trail and shoe slurry spreading system to maximise slurry potential and limit grass taint

- Get farm professionally mapped

- Increase cow numbers

- Get contractor to carry out some of the machinery work to free up time

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- Brexit (unknown future of export tariffs effecting milk price)

-  Glanbia restructuring liquid milk and winter milk schemes

- Environmental ( derogation may be withdrawn)

- Increasing input  costs e.g. fertiliser, feed

- Weather event