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As autumn approaches, Irish dairy farmers enter one of the most critical periods of the production...
Dairy
With drying off for autumn calving herds set to take place in the next couple of weeks, the body...
Calving down and heifer mastitis, or in some scenarios, having a blind quarter, can be a massive...
As we are now in the month of December, many cows around the country are dried off at this point...
Dairy Technical
Depending on the planned start of calving or due dates of cows, dry cow minerals may already need...
Grouping cows when housed this winter, will allow for better management and ensure that they are in...
Pregnancy diagnosis is a vital part of managing fertility and productivity in dairy herds. One...
As many farmers are heading into the final couple of months of the lactation with 2023...
Milk recording has become increasingly more important on Irish dairy farms, for a number of...
Selective dry cow therapy (SDCT) is being used on many farms for the first time this year,...
One of the main reasons why cows are dried-off early is due to body condition scores (BCS) being...
The drying off of cows has begun on many farms, with almost all herds due to begin the process in...
Dairy cows, typically, undergo a dry period of 60 days prior to calving. A dry period is important...
With labour becoming harder to source, more farmers are turning to smart farming technologies to...
The drying off of spring-calving cows has begun on many farms, as they wind down ahead of the...
Cows have entered the final third of their lactation and although many cows will continue to milk...
With cows fully housed around the country and the majority of those dried off, one of the main...
At this stage, a proportion of cows in spring-calving dairy herds have been dried off or at least...
As farmers begin drying off cows, on many spring-calving dairy farms, there are a few things that...
Many spring-calving dairy farmers have - or should have - begun to dry-off cows; however, usually...
"50% of all clinical mastitis cases, in the first 100 days of the next lactation, can be linked...
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Maintaining persistency in late lactation within your dairy herd is critical to prolonging income...
Drying off is a key time for mastitis control on dairy farms, as it can influence the mastitis...
Paddocks that are at the end of the current grazing rotation can be kept for dry cows,” according...
With quotas a thing of the past, cows will be milked on for longer this autumn than previous years,...
To ignore, or significantly shorten, the dry period could have a detrimental effect on the...
