N.Ireland
CAFRE tips to ensure a healthy calving season
The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has shared advice from a College of Agriculture Food and Rural...
N.Ireland
The Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has shared advice from a College of Agriculture Food and Rural...
Rural Life
The safe management of livestock throughout calving season is set to be the focus of a new farm safety inspection...
Dairy Technical
Ahead of the spring-calving season, dairy farmers should assess their calf housing facilities to determine if they are adequate. The...
Dairy Technical
Summer scour is a relatively new phenomenon that is being seen in dairy calves at grass on Irish farms. Grazing...
Agri-Business
Two Kerry students are hoping that a device which they created as part of the Student Enterprise Programme will improve...
Dairy Technical
A compact spring-calving season has many benefits, but it means that calves arrive thick and fast in a short period...
Dairy Technical
The drying off of cows is just around the corner on many farms, with body condition score (BCS) being key...
Dairy
Northern Ireland farmers are costing themselves thousands in additional heifer rearing costs by calving on average four and a half...
Dairy
In order to maintain dairy herd size and performance, it is necessary to have a good supply of quality heifers...
Beef
With calving on a lot of suckler farmers’ minds in the coming weeks, it is important not to forget the...
Dairy
The inventor of the Calving Assist – a device to aid dairy farmers in helping cows to calve – has...
Dairy
A dairy farmer from Co. Tipperary has invented a calving aid for farmers called the Calving Assist. Jim Ryan, from...
Dairy
The primary reason for shortening the breeding season is to tighten up the following calving season. This is to increase...
Agri-Business
The ICBF has updated its gestation length figures for both the major dairy and beef breeds based on insemination and...
Buildings
With the lambing and calving season underway, it is important farmers keep in mind the importance of good ventilation in...
Rural Life
An extraordinary occurrence took place on a farm in Co. Kilkenny in the past three weeks when not one but...
Beef
A dairy farmer in Co. Clare has expressed his surprise after one of his cows delivered twin calves – fathered...
Video
How to test the quality of colostrum using a Brix Refractometer and top tips on stomach tubing a calf colostrum.