DAFM forecast for 2025 The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in collaboration with Met Éireann and UCD, has issued its Nematodirus forecast for 2025. This forecast provides farmers with a forecast – based on likely egg-hatching time – of the risk of disease caused by infection with the Nematodirus battus roundworm. About Nematodirosis Nematodirosis is a parasitic disease that mostly impacts young lambs between the ages of six and twelve weeks. Infection by the...