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As autumn approaches, Irish dairy farmers enter one of the most critical periods of the production...
Dairy
A recent Teagasc report stated that spring-calving cows should be on a rising plane of feed intake...
Cryptosporidiosis or ‘crypto’ is the leading cause of scour in young calves and its prevalence...
With milder conditions in store for this week, farmers should consider turning out some older...
Achieving target weights is important for replacement heifers. Those that fail to reach target...
As St. Patricks day approaches, so does the one million mark for calf registrations. Currently calf...
Pregnancy diagnosis is a vital part of managing fertility and productivity in dairy herds. One...
Start the spreading season off on a high with the correct set-up of your fertiliser spreader....
Coccidiosis occurs in calves from the approximate age of three weeks onwards. It arises in young...
Additional reporting by Michael Carey Dairy calf exports have fallen significantly behind this...
Dairy calf exports are significantly ahead this year in comparison to the same period last year,...
The severe weather seen in the early part of February means the vast majority of farmers did not...
On a recent Teagasc webinar, Donal Patton, a dairy research technologist, based in Teagasc...
With labour becoming harder to source, more farmers are turning to smart farming technologies to...
Beef
The recent heavy rainfalls during the month of February has left land that more challenging for...
The spring-calving season is well under way on farms across the country with over half a million...
Rapid body condition score (BCS) loss post-calving can cause health implications or failure to go...
This year’s calves will be your future milk producers of your herd; so it is paramount that...
During a recent Volac webinar on the dairy heifer - from conception to weaning - it was outlined...
For Irish dairy farmers, grazing grass represents our greatest advantage in livestock and milk...
As calf sheds begin to fill and in-calf cow numbers begin to reduce on many farms across the...
The calving season is a busy time of year on farms, as calves on many farms are now being born...
We are entering the thick of the calving season on dairy farms across the country, and as the...
The spring-calving season is well underway on dairy farms across the country and although the...
If it slips under the radar, grass tetany/hypomagnesaemia can suddenly prove very costly to...
The spring-calving season is well underway on farms across the country, with many farmers hoping...
