Dairy
As we are now at the end of July, the latter end of the grazing season is approaching and moving on cull cows in the herd should be...
N.Ireland
CAFRE has recently surveyed 120 dairy herds across Northern Ireland to determine the main reason for culling cows within these businesses.
Dairy Technical
As the breeding season approaches on farms, it's time to start selecting cows for the culling.
The Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) eradiation scheme has been in place for 67 years in Ireland, with the scheme costing €97.3m in 2020.
Culling cows based of performance alone is a mistake, but this is often the tendency on Irish farms, rather than looking at other traits.
