Upcoming Events

National | Environment

no events match your query!

Blog Feeds

Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

Public Inquiry >>

Human Rights in Ireland
Promoting Human Rights in Ireland

Human Rights in Ireland >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Sun-Dimming Quango has ?800 Million of Taxpayer Money to Blow ? and a CEO on ?450k Thu May 08, 2025 13:28 | Sallust
The quango behind the mad and dangerous plan to dim the Sun has a budget of ?800 million of taxpayer money to blow on speculative projects ? and a CEO on ?450k. What an extraordinary misuse of public money.
The post Sun-Dimming Quango has ?800 Million of Taxpayer Money to Blow ? and a CEO on ?450k appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Voters Reject Net Zero, Opinion Poll Shows Thu May 08, 2025 11:13 | Will Jones
Voters reject Net Zero when asked whether it is more important than cutting the cost of living, an opinion poll has shown, with nearly 60% picking cutting costs and just 13% cutting carbon emissions when asked to choose.
The post Voters Reject Net Zero, Opinion Poll Shows appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link EXCLUSIVE: Britain Forced to Spend ?1.5 Billion to Mitigate Wind Turbine Corruptions to Vital Air De... Thu May 08, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Britain's offshore wind farms are a clear danger to vital air defences, with the Government forced to spend ?1.5bn in the next two years to try to rescue the country's early warning radar network, says Chris Morrison.
The post EXCLUSIVE: Britain Forced to Spend ?1.5 Billion to Mitigate Wind Turbine Corruptions to Vital Air Defence Radar appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What Does Renaud Camus Actually Believe? Part Two: Is He Really a Conspiracy Theorist? Thu May 08, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Banned from Britain for coining the term 'The Great Replacement', French philosopher Renaud Camus has been branded a far-Right conspiracy theorist. But those who say that clearly haven't read him, says Steven Tucker.
The post What Does Renaud Camus Actually Believe? Part Two: Is He Really a Conspiracy Theorist? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu May 08, 2025 01:12 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

National - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

September meeting Claremorris Town Hall

category national | environment | event notice author Sunday August 06, 2017 17:00author by Cleo de Vito - Mayo Organic Groupauthor email devitohara06 at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Mob Grazing introduction

Sligo farmer, Clive Bright, gives a brief introduction to a low-input animal management system, which he currently, and cost-effectively, uses.
Mayo Mob Grazing
Mayo Mob Grazing

Mayo Organic Group is delighted to welcome Clive, to give an introduction to this method of animal management. We will be meeting on Thursday 21st September, at Claremorris Town Hall. Further details via Cleo, on mayoorganicgroupbookings@gmail.com

Mob Grazing and Low-Stress Livestock Management

I manage 120 acres organically in south Sligo.
We run a herd of around 30 breeding cows (Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford) and finish about 1/3 of our calves to 100% grass fed beef which I direct sell. Another third are kept as breeding heifers and allowed to calve down, the best are kept are replacements and the others sold with calves at foot. The final third are the animals performing least well and sold at various stages to maintain cash flow into various suitable markets.
All the animals are rotated through temporary paddocks using managed intensive grazing - sometimes called holistic grazing or mob grazing. We never feed grain, our animals are exclusively grass-fed - lush pasture in summer; hay and silage in winter. We also practise low-stress livestock handling and we compost all our farm waste on a large scale.
It is a profitable low input - high output system that benefits the soil, the grass, the animals and the farmer! It works on any scale with any types of ruminants (cows, sheep, goats, deer etc.). The system can also easily incorporate mono-gastric animals too (horses, pigs and chickens). With careful management at a low stocking rate, out-wintering on standing grass with no hay or silage can be easily achieved.

Clive Bright

Related Link: https://www.facebook.com/mayoorganicgroup/
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy