The Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS):

2017 ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Ethel Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Rural Environment ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Protection Scheme

Effects of extending the grazing season in beef production systems

2001 ◽  
Vol 2001 ◽  
pp. 116-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.J. O’Neill ◽  
M.J. Drennan ◽  
P.J. Caffrey
Keyword(s):  
Production Systems ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Beef Production ◽  
Grazing Season ◽  
Protection Scheme ◽  
Grass Silage ◽  
Feed Costs ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Eu Support

The cost of grazed grass is less than half that of grass silage (O’Kiely, 1994) and incomes from beef production are low and largely dependent on EU support schemes. Thus the income from beef production could be incresed by reducing feed costs through increasing the proportion of grazed grass in the diet and optimising the use of the various support schemes. The objective of this two-year study was to examine the effects on the performance of yearling cattle of turnout to pasture three weeks earlier than normal. This was examined within two suckler beef production systems. One was a standard system similar to that outlined by Drennan (1993) and the second was compatible with the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS).

Commonage land and farmer uptake of the rural environment protection scheme in Ireland

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom M. Van Rensburg ◽  
Eithne Murphy ◽  
Paul Rocks
Keyword(s):  
Rural Environment ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Protection Scheme
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