About this episode

Tom and Michael Ryan discuss their award-winning dairy farm and insights on farming practices.

Tom and Michael Ryan, winners of the NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Award for 2025, join Stuart Childs on the day of their farm walk following their win. Tom gives a bit of background to the their farm and how they have been farming there since the 1860s. Michael then explains the decisions made to facilitate him returning home in 2018 and he outlines the current performance of the herd and how genotyping has been a real game changer for them in terms of selecting heifers to retain as replacements. Finally, Tom has some excellent advice in relation to generation renewal and why making a plan is the key. For more episodes from the Dairy Edge podcast go to the show page at: https://www.teagasc.ie/animals/dairy/the-dairy-edge-podcast/ The Dairy Edge is a co-production with LastCastMedia.com

People in this episode

Host: Stuart Childs

Guests: Tom Ryan, Michael Ryan

Topics covered

• dairy farming
• quality milk award
• farm management
• genotyping
• generation renewal

Keywords

• dairy farming
• quality milk
• genotyping
• farm management
• generation renewal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NDC, Kerrygold, Teagasc, LastCastMedia.com

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