Michael McGuigan from Longwood, Co. Meath is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast with an insight into his beef system and his targets in detail. He is a participant in the Future Beef programme and farms part-time, managing his own company off-farm.
Michael bought the farm in 2016 and set about developing it and improving the soil fertility and grassland. He farms 23.5 hectares and it is a mixture of sandy gravel and clay soil.
Michael runs a suckling to weanling system consisting of all Autumn calvers. The males are sold as weanlings while the heifers, if not retained for breeding, are sold for export or sold in show and sales in the local mart. He is using 100% A.I. to allow him to use the best genetics available.
Further updates on Michael’s farm are available here:
https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/beef/demonstration-farms/future-beef-programme/farmers/michael-mcguigan/
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