#igasheep
farm walk14th May 2024 in Donegal.
Free admission. Refreshments on arrival at 6pm.
Proudly sponsored by
@MullinahoneCoop
for more details
Eircode F93KF77
Remembering great times with really great people.
You were a gentleman Cathal. Always smiling + full of fun. So knowledgeable + giving of your time to so many of us in the Agri Industry. You will be dearly missed at our
#igadairy
events by all your friends in the IGA
#teamiga
Our new President
@Hylo67
is a Dairy Farmer from Portlaoise, Co. Laois. He is married with four young children. He farms in partnership with his brother David running a Friesian and crossbred herd. Paul has spent time working on farms in Holland and New Zealand.
#teamiga
Stan Lalor (
@stjlalor
) was appointed as as our New President at The AGM of the Irish Grassland Association today. He took over the role previously held by Paul Hyland (
@Hylo67
). Best of luck Stan.
#teamiga
COMPETITION TIME!!!
Did you miss out on the 100 free members tickets to our Pre-Conference Networking Evening and Dinner (on the 16th January)? If so, this is your chance to win TWO places.
Like comment and RT to enter
#IGADAIRY
#teamdairy
🐄🐄🐄 IGA Virtual Dairy Summer Tour week starts Mon 20th July. We will be showcasing
@davidkerr67
@conorcreedon1
and Henry Walsh. Live Q+A finalé 23rd July, where we can further understand the direction they have taken since hosting the tour. RT welcome
#igadairy
#BackedbyAIB
🐄 🐄 Competition time 🐄 🐄
Like, share, comment
#igadairy
🐄 B+B
@CharlevillePark
🐄 Gala night x 2
🐄 Conference tickets x 2
This event always sells out early, so don't delay and book tickets/B+B now.
4 course steak dinner €45pp
Conf tickets from €50pp
#igadairy
Let us introduce you to Alan Kelly, IGA Vice President 2021/22.
Alan holds an honours degree in Animal Science and a PhD in Cattle Nutritional Physiology from UCD. Alan is a Lecturer in Animal Science at
@ucdagfood
Welcome to the new council of the Irish Grassland Association CLG.
The team will be lead by our President Alan Kelly Professor at
@ucdagfood
and our Vice President
@bryanjhynes
Dairy Farmer.
Will will introduce you to our new council members over the coming weeks.
#teamiga
Today we remember one of our former Presidents and friend Padraig Walshe.
Padraig served as our president in 1996/7. He is pictured below at one of the many IGA events that he regularly attended. Padraig also hosted our National Student Conference in 2015.
May he rest in peace
🐄🐄🐄 FARM OVERVIEW HENRY WALSH 🐄🐄🐄
DM any questions you want to ask our panel during the live webinar with
@AIBBiz
(7pm Thursday night on )
#igadairy
#BackedbyAIB
rt welcome
Ned English is a potato and cereal grower in Co. Cork. He's founder of
@CastlecorPotato
+ developing a very successful family business employing 60+ in potatoes, more recently, onions. He's no stranger to developing a business in midst of volatility.
#igadairy
@Yara_Ireland
Thank you to the 650 delegates who attended our Dairy Conf in
@CharlevillePark
. Special thanks to our excellent speakers, chairmen and sponsors
@Yara_Ireland
. We hope you all learnt some valuable take home messages.
Next job for
#IGADAIRY
is our Dairy Summer Tour.
#igadairy
summer tour prep in full swing today. Peter Hamm began milking in 2014 with 30 bought in heifers with a minimal inv of €40k. His ambition is to reach 135 by 2020. One key to success was quality of heifers.
#backedbyAIB
#grasstomilk
#teamdairy
🐄🐄🐄 2014 TO NOW - DAVID KERR🐄🐄🐄
DM any questions you want to ask
@davidkerr67
or the panel during the live webinar with
@AIB
(at 7pm Thursday night on )
#igadairy
#BackedbyAIB
rt welcome
Congratulations to our Past President
@Eddieod83
and his father Denis (also the inaugural
@TeagascGrass10
Grassland Farmers of the Year 2017) who are set to represent Ireland at the Inno4Grass awards in Germany in June.
#TEAMIGA
Let us introduce you to Christy Watson,
President of the IGA 2021/22.
Christy works as a Business and Technology Adviser with
@teagasc
Naas.
He graduated from
@ucdagfood
with an honors degree and a master’s degree. He also holds a diploma from
@UCC
.
Our youngest attendant today is certainly starting his
#igadairy
learning early. 👍👍 “Turn me around Mammy.... I can’t see the screen!!!”
#igadairy
@Yara_Ireland
We are so looking forward to welcoming you all back to live events with us this summer. We have 5 events lined up and you will not be disappointed. We will start launching the events in the next 2- 3 weeks.
#teamiga
#igaevents
#igasheep
#igabeef
#igadairy
Farming FT (mostly alone) since '87, David milks 160 cows on 64ha in 2 divisions. He employs students for spring work and also contractors. He completed a Nuffield Scholarship in '08 on 'Transition to Scale' and hosted our Summer Tour with
@Hylo67
in '14.
🐄🐄🐄IGA DAIRY SUMMER TOUR LIVE🐄🐄🐄
FROM GALWAY AND CORK
No registration necessary. Log into to view live at 11am Wednesday 21st July.
Here is our first host farmer
@morankevin797
from Galway.
#igadairy
#igaevents
#BackedbyAIB
🐄🐄
#igadairy
EVENTS JAN 2022🐄🐄
Plans are coming together very well over the past few months for our two big events in January in
@CharlevillePark
sponsored by
@Yara_Ireland
.
We are looking forward to seeing all our members again soon.
RT appreciated.
#igaevents
🐄🐄🐄 We are filming today in the rolling hills of east Kerry with
@conorcreedon1
preparing for the
#igadairy
Summer Tour
#BackedbyAIB
..... more details to follow members, in next week's post 🐄🐄🐄
Books have arrived, sound / AV company are here and the room in
@CharlevillePark
is already set for 650. Thank you to everyone who booked tickets to come to our 2 events this wk.
We're ready for a few great days with our members. Who's going?
#teamiga
#igadairy
@Yara_Ireland
IGA Dairy Summer Tour 2021. Here are the boards from the Moran Farm. We hope you enjoyed watching the event. We have uploaded a replay version on if you want to cool down this evening and learn more about Kevins Farm.
#igadairy
#BackedbyAIB
@AIBBiz
Let us introduce you to our new council member
@mikeegan88
. Mike is a Grassland Research Officer in
@teagasc
Moorepark.
Read more about Mike on our website
#teamiga
The new management team at
#teamiga
. Our immediate Past President Paul Hyland, newly appointed President Stan Lalor and newly appointed Vice President Christy Watson.
The best caption wins a 2 day ticket to the
#igadairy
Extravaganza 17th +18th July or 2 tickets to the
#igadairy
conf 9th + 10th January. The winner will be chosen by our neutral judge
@teagascgrams
😃
🐄 Comment below with your caption +
#igadairy
🐄 Like + retweet this post
IGA Members were advised in Dec that we have changed the date of our Dairy Conf to July. We would prefer to run our events in person + in safer times. It will be hosted during the wk of the 18th July.
RT appreciated! The replanning process has started!
#igadairy
@Yara_Ireland
Let us introduce you to our new council member
@MatthewHalpin22
who is beef farming in partnership with his father Tom in Co. Meath and works for
@farmersjournal
.
Read more about Matthew on our website
#teamiga
Congratulations to the
#igafbdstudent
competition winner
@fionnualagodwin
. Many thanks to our independent judge
@donalphoto
who had a challenge picking his favourite images. The theme was "Grass through a lens". The photo was published in our recent members information booklet.
The Duggans farm 96 ha of mostly freedraining land in 3 separate parcels. The 144 cows produce ~500 kg milk solids on 800 kg of meals on 36 ha milking platform. They rear 90 replacement calves, selling 60 @ 18 mths.
#igadairy
#igadairy
@Yara_Ireland
Let's introduce you recently co-opted council member Aoife Feeney who is the Farm Sustainability Mgr at Carbery Gp. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Ag Science majoring in Animal Science and recently completed her master’s degree in Ag Extension and Innovation with
@ucddublin
🐄🐄🐄 THANK YOU DAVID KERR🐄🐄🐄
DM any questions you want to ask
@davidkerr67
or the panel during the live webinar with
@AIB
(at 7pm Thursday night on )
#igadairy
#BackedbyAIB
rt welcome
Tomorrow we will introduce Henry Walsh.
Meet our new council members
Declan Marren is a Livestock Specialist with the
@farmersjournal
+ also the programme manager of THRIVE.
Declan is from a beef and sheep farm in Co Sligo which runs a 20 cow suckler herd as well as a 200 ewe mid-season lambing flock.
#teamiga
DATE FOR THE DIARY
We met our three dairy host farmers today at the launch of the 2 day
#igadairy
Extravaganza. The 3 farm walks and Summer Steak BBQ social night will take place over the 17th and 18th July.
More details to follow very soon.
#igadairy
#igaevents
#backedbyAIB
“No investment decisions on farm were ever made without budgets drawn up first. Once made it was never broken”. The English family highlights decision process on farm that brought them from 50 to 250 cows on 140ha farmed.
#igadairy
summer tour
#backedbyAIB
🐄🐄IGA DAIRY SUMMER TOUR 23rd JULY🐄🐄
Mbrs tickets €50 to inc hot b/fast rolls on arrival, hot 2 course lunch, bus transfers + lots of insight to what these super operators are doing to achieve high performance. BOOKING ESSENTIAL 087 9626483. Please RT
Alan Kelly
@ucdagfood
, our immediate past president, made a presentation to
@McEvoy_M
@Germinal_Ire
at our AGM following six years with
#teamiga
. She and will conclude her role at our 2023 student event in Tipperary next wk. Thank you, Mary, for your service + dedication to IGA
Launching
#IGASheep2018
today on the farm of John Large. Event takes place 22nd May in the Horse & Jockey Hotel and is kindly co sponsored by MSD Animal Health and Mullinahone Co Op. Please RT.
#IGASHEEP
Heads up members.. check the post + book your b+b. We can rustle up extra tickets/buses, but we can't make extra rooms available. Be smart and book tripple/quad rooms with
@Headfort
if you're coming in groups. 3 super farms, steak BBQ social night.
#igadairy
Who's coming? 🙏 RT
Date for your dairy
We will be hosting our beef event on the 14th June 2022 in Kilkenny.
Members will be notified with more information via post in the coming weeks.
Kindly supported by
@mullinahone_coop
🐄🐄🐄 CORRECTING SOIL FERTILITY AND NEXT STEPS 🐄🐄🐄
DM any questions you want to ask
@davidkerr67
during the live webinar with
@AIBBiz
(at 7pm Thursday night on )
#igadairy
#BackedbyAIB
rt welcome
Thank you to all 650 delegates who secured tickets to our National Dairy Conf on the 17th Jan in Charleville. We are looking forward to welcoming our members and a few new faces too. Registration is at 9am sharp. This event is now fully sold out.
#IGADAIRY
@j0hn_k
runs a 240 cow spring-calving grass based dairy herd. He is committed to striking a balance between his farm output, the environment and his work and family life balance. John shares his journey into Dairy farming
#igadairy
@Yara_Ireland
IGA Dairy Conference sponsored by
@Yara_Ireland
20% discount on tickets online until 6th Dec. Hurry to secure your ticket as this event always sells out early!
#teamiga
#igadairy
FREE GRAZING INFRASTRUCTURE EVENT
Members get your farm ready and attend our free event in Tuam on 25th April. Simple easy tips for farms to use utilise more grass. Incl temp fencing, water, paddock size allocation, rotation mgt.
Kindly sponsored by
@Terraservices
#IGAEVENTS
Overall the volume of entries into the
#igafbdstudent
photo competition with
@fbd_ie
was incredible. The standards were truly outstanding. In addition to awarding 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, our independent judge
@donalphoto
has complemented the following 4 people on their entries.