Even the experts have their farming setbacks

FARMING is just as tough for Teagasc as for the ordinary Joe Soaps.

A spate of caesarian sections and high calving loses in the replacements have hit the Derrypatrick suckler herd at the Grange, Co Meath, research centre, where a non-performing bull caused a major problem last year (see ‘Derrypatrick just like a normal farm’).

There has been a setback on the greenfield dairy farm at Clara, Co Kilkenny, also.