Dairy
Should TB resistance be factored into your breeding plan?
Now that farmers are receiving their spring 2025 dairy and beef sires catalogues, is TB resistance and other health traits...
Breeding
Dairy
Breeding: Selection of straws and cows needs to begin
Although we are only in January and the calving season is still yet to get underway, breeding preparation needs to...
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Transform your calf rearing with a JFC automatic feeder
We recently caught up with Richard Lowe who is a dairy farmer from Adare, Co. Limerick, who shares how the...
Dairy
Breeding for Efficiency Series: Friesians to Jersey cross in Kerry
Agriland Media Group is delighted to collaborate with LIC Ireland to bring you the ‘Breeding For Efficiency Series’. Dairy farmer David O’Leary...
Dairy
Breeding for Efficiency Series: Jersey cross driving production
Agriland Media Group is delighted to collaborate with LIC Ireland to bring you the Breeding For Efficiency Series. James Croke is milking...
Dairy
Breeding for Efficiency Series: Not chasing EBI with NZ Friesians
Agriland Media Group is delighted to collaborate with LIC Ireland to bring you the Breeding For Efficiency Series. The Breeding For Efficiency...
Dairy
Agriland and LIC present new series focused on efficient breeding
Agriland Media Group is delighted to collaborate with Livestock Improvement Corporation Ltd (LIC) Ireland to bring you the ‘Breeding for...
Dairy
Cost of synchronisation programme: Is it worthwhile for your herd?
As we enter into the breeding season for the autumn calving herds, farmers should asking themselves whether a synchronisation programme...
Sheep News
New project aims to identify lower methane-emitting sheep
A new international project creating knowledge and infrastructure to incorporate genetic merit for low environmental impact traits into national breeding...
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Farmer Wellbeing Board offers support to those in need
“A picture paints a thousand words” – this well-known phrase perfectly captures the essence of the Farmer Wellbeing Board, designed...
Dairy
Breeding for components on Down dairy farm
Breeding for components is the primary herd development objective for Co. Down milk producer Philip Tinsley. He recently hosted an...
Dairy
Autumn calving: Are your cows cycling ahead of breeding?
Now that the majority of the autumn calving cows have now calved down, it is time to ensure that they...
Dairy
Autumn calving: Getting cows in good condition for breeding
We are now into the middle of November, which means that the start of the breeding season for the autumn...
Beef
Could embryos from factory cows be reused for breeding?
A recent research paper from Teagasc highlighted that ovaries from beef-breed and dairy-beef cross dams post-slaughter could be collected and...
Dairy
Dairy Focus: Cork man manages 1,500-cow farm in England
This week’s Dairy Focus takes us to a farm where Breffni Daly, a young man from west Cork, has been...
Dairy
Autumn calving: Time to prepare for the breeding season
For your typical autumn calving herd, we are around four weeks into the calving season, and it won’t be long...
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Transition milk replacer-fed heifer calves produce more milk in 1st lactation
Heifer calves fed a transition milk replacer in their first 10 days of life produced a remarkable 947L more milk...
Beef
Reminder: Global dairy calf to beef event in Wexford next week
An international conference focused on dairy calf to beef production is set to take place in Co. Wexford, on October...
Dairy
What is the trade of cows and heifers looking like for the future?
The trade of cows and heifers over the last number of years has been steady, but with poor weather conditions...
Dairy
Ireland & NZ breeding for low emission animals - what's possible?
In the last number of years, the focus in Ireland and New Zealand has been breeding for low emission and...
Dairy
Reminder: Scanning your cows has to be done now
As the breeding season is now wrapped up, the priority turns to scanning your cows as soon as possible to...