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January

🐄Spring calving begins📋BISS applications open🏠Indoor feeding & housing

February

🐑Lambing season starts🌾Spring planting begins🐄Peak calving season

March

🌱Turnout to grass🚜Fertiliser spreading📋BISS deadline approaching

April

📋BISS deadline🌱First grazing rotation🐄Breeding season starts

May

🌾First cut silage🐄AI breeding peak🚜Crop spraying

June

🌾Second cut silage📋Nitrates records due💊Dosing cattle

July

🩺TB testing rounds🐄Weaning calves🌱Reseeding paddocks

August

🌾Harvest begins🐑Scanning ewes🌱Autumn grass planning

September

🏆Ploughing Championships🌾Winter crop sowing🐄Autumn calving starts

October

🏠Housing cattle🧪Soil sampling📋Scheme reviews

November

🐄Winter feeding plans🚜Land management📋Tax year planning

December

🐄Pre-calving nutrition📋Year-end records🧪Soil testing

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Understand Your Options

Plain-English explanations of AI tools built for farming. What they do, what they cost, and whether they're worth the time to set up.

18 pieces 12 articles, 6 guides

Articles

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Build an early disease warning system for your herd using AHI alerts and AI

Animal Health Ireland publishes disease alerts most farmers never see. Here's how to turn them in…

7 min read
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Find out what your farm insurance actually covers — before you need to claim

What your policy actually covers — in plain English.

6 min read
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ChatGPT gave you nothing useful? These 5 fixes change that

It's not the tool. It's the prompt. Here's how to fix it.

6 min read
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Drone mapping for Irish farms: the three cheapest ways to get started

Drone mapping can show you what your eye misses — here's how to get started without spending a fo…

7 min read
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Free satellite data for your farm — a beginner's guide to Copernicus and EOS

The EU's Copernicus satellites photograph your land every five days — for free.

7 min read
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Feed your ICBF herd data into AI — what it tells you that the report doesn't

Your ICBF report tells you where you are. AI tells you why — and what to do next.

7 min read
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Can AI Predict Which Cows Will Get Sick? What Irish Dairy Farmers Should Know About Early Warning Systems

Learn what AI mortality prediction tools actually do, where the research stands, and whether they…

6 min read
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How to Read a Soil Sampling AI Report Without an Agronomy Degree

Learn what the numbers on your AI-generated soil report actually mean — and what to do with them …

6 min read
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What AI can and can't do for a 50-cow suckler farm

Most AI farming content assumes big dairy herds — here's what actually helps on a 50-cow suckler …

7 min read
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AI for Farm Succession — What the Tools Can Draft and What Only the Family Can Decide

AI tools can draft succession documents and crunch the tax numbers — but the hard conversations a…

5 min read
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Voice notes to farm records — save an hour a week by talking instead of typing

Dictate farm records into your phone and let AI turn them into proper entries — no typing, no los…

5 min read
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Your EBI is built by AI — here's what that means for your next bull purchase

7 min read