Dairy
Testing silage is key to forming a well-formulated, energy rich diet to drive milk production for...
Ahead of the winter months, farmers need to ensure that they have their silage tested. With...
As part of a ZeroNsile project, AgriSearch recently held a farm walk on red clover establishment on...
Showers here and there over the weekend may have halted mowers for parts of the country, but the...
Dairy Technical
With excellent weather for the last couple of days and the dry spell set to continue, which has...
For most farms, fertiliser is in the ground on their silage blocks and, for autumn calving herds...
It is not uncommon for displaced abomasum (DA) to occur during the calving season, and it can have...
It is easy to get carried away feeding concentrates for your winter milk herd, however the diet...
The difficult weather conditions for silage making means that identifying and mitigating mycotoxin...
Many farmers have started to dry off their first calvers and their thin cows, and perhaps they...
We are now into the thick of autumn calving for the winter milk herds and as we progress further...
As cows are progressing further into the lactation, closer to drying-off and closer to the housing...
Although there are still many cows in the shed, and grazing has not fully taken off yet, it's now...
Harvesting high quality silage is vital for farms that will be milking cows in the shed next...
Beef
The opening six to eight weeks of the year and mid-summer tend to be the times of the year when...
N.Ireland
There is now a growing concern that silage stocks are starting to run low on many dairy and...
The winter routine has begun on dairy farms, with silage pits now open and cows in housing until...
Silage slippage is a major challenge on many dairy and beef farms throughout Northern Ireland at...
Most dairy farmers in Northern Ireland will have sufficient silage stocks built up by this stage to...
Knowing the quality of the silage on your farm is vital to ensure that maximum herd performance is...
Beef Technical
The importance of harvesting high-quality silage for dairy calf-to-beef systems was highlighted at...
Silage bales have a role to play on almost every Irish livestock farm, with silage contributing...
There is often an aim to cut silage crops early and harvest as high a quality silage as possible,...
