Dairy
Calls for 'straw bedding and stock-boarded pens' for calves at marts
Straw bedding and stock-boarded pens should be provided for all calves at marts, according to a new dairy husbandry policy...
Dairy
Straw bedding and stock-boarded pens should be provided for all calves at marts, according to a new dairy husbandry policy...
Beef
There are “many benefits” to beef-sired heifer calves from dairy cows, according to recently-published research. The research was carried out...
Dairy News
One of the country’s largest calf exporters expects around 120,000 additional dairy calves to come on the Irish calf market...
Agri-Business
Wicklow Calf Company has issued a statement following the RTÉ Investigates programme, which aired on Monday (July 10). The programme showed incidents of...
Agri-Business
Macra has strongly condemned the “shocking practices” involving dairy bull calves shown during an RTÉ Investigates programme last night (Monday,...
Agri-Business
The Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society (ICOS) has said that it will “fully support” an investigation by the Department of Agriculture,...
Agri-Business
Mart workers shown mistreating calves during an RTÉ Investigates programme last night (Monday, July 10) must be identified and sacked,...
Agri-Business
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine has condemned what he has described as the “shocking practices” on an...
Agri-Business
An Ireland South MEP has called for random inspections to be carried out at marts in the wake of footage...
Agri-Business
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has said that an investigation by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM)...
Dairy
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published new guidance on the welfare of dairy and veal calves. In a...
Dairy Technical
Some 877,974 dairy-sired calves were born to dairy cows on Irish farms in 2022, with 602,179 registered to artificial insemination (AI) sires....
Dairy Technical
Calf registrations have reached 1,952,842 head for the year to date, based on the latest data from the Irish Cattle...
Dairy Technical
There has been over 2.3 million calf registrations in 2021 to dairy and beef dams, based off the latest figures...
CAP / Schemes
The allocation of €25 million for a dairy beef calf measure in the 2023-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has been...
Dairy Technical
Transitioning calves from a milk-based diet to a grass-based diet can be tricky; calves being turned out to lush grass...
Dairy
Over the past year or so, a lot of talk has centered around the dairy industry, in particular, the bull...
Dairy
Unfortunately, the calf export trade has been disrupted again this week as poor weather conditions at sea continue. Sailings with...