Dairy
As we approach the winter housing period, farmers must make spring-calving heifers a priority in an...
Spring milk volumes increased strongly in the last two weeks as rising temperatures led to a surge...
During calving, cows are often under pressure going from calving down to milking, and from cubicles...
The majority of the herd will now have calves on the ground as we get further into February which...
Retained cleanings is also known as retained fetal membrane or retained placenta and occurs when...
We are now only a matter of days away from the start of the calving season and any last minute...
Many cows have already kicked off the calving season, as there have been a number of calves born...
We are nearing the end of December, meaning it won't be long until the calving season kicks off all...
Calf scour is a well-known enemy in farm yards across the country, with the disease holding the...
As we are now into the thick of autumn calving, it's important to be considerate of keeping your...
This week's Dairy Focus takes us to a farm where Breffni Daly, a young man from west Cork, has been...
A new feasibility study published in the science journal, Nature, predicts cow calving time 40 plus...
There is no doubt that milk pregnancy testing has grown in popularity on dairy farms across the...
New Zealand dairy farmer Frank Newman is enjoying the start of the calving season, as 244 cows have...
Dairy News
The Irish Cattle Breeders Federation (ICBF) has said that 448,123 calves have been genotyped to...
Sheep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TbLLEtNZ4s Like many other farmers at the moment, farmers Pat...
Agri-Business
XLVets Ireland has said there was an 80% increase in reports of calf birth defects in the first two...
Rural Life
A dairy farmer in Co. Kerry has told Agriland how his uncle, who is a priest, has encouraged him to...
Beef
A Teagasc vet has said that there is no guarantee that the number of cows calving at night will...
Dairy Technical
After calving, cows should be closely monitored to ensure that excess body condition is not lost....
N.Ireland
New statistics from the Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland (AHWNI) have shown that Bovine...
The Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM) is urging the investigation of any birth...
Around 3,000 farmers are facing into reducing organic nitrogen stocking rates to be compliant with...
