Dairy
Look inside the MV Alondra livestock-carrier, where 1,600 purebred Friesian heifers are currently on board and enroute to Algeria
Agriland spoke with Alan Clarke of Cows.ie to see what the outlook was for the trade of heifers amid high stock prices and supply shortages..
In light of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation's (ICBF's) statistics on the shortage of dairy replacement heifers being born on dairy...
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Agriland got an exclusive look inside the MV Alondra livestock-carrier, where 1,600 purebred...
Agri-Business
The Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) has described the data on dairy herd replacements as a serious “wake up” call...
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) produced stark figures a couple of weeks ago, indicating a significant drop in dairy female calf
The dispersal sale of the Greenhills herd on Wednesday, April 23 saw 21 heifer calves sold on the day with one heifer calf making...
The trend over the last few years is that farmers are breeding the number of replacement dairy heifers that is required for a sufficient...
We are coming to the end of March now, and the likelihood is that all the dairy replacement calves are on the ground...
The Coolnagree herd of Seamus O’Leary and the Beechlands herd of Walter Crean combined for a production sale of 60 fresh calved heifers...
The majority of heifers will already have calved down this spring and preventing them from lameness is crucial.
A new €1 million state-of-the-art dairy calf rearing centre will have its official opening at 11a.m today at UCD Lyons Farm.
Your yearling heifers have just completed their first winter and are coming up on a year old, which means that farmers may be thinking...
As we enter into the latter stages of the breeding season for spring calving herds, it is vitally important to pick up any repeats in order..
Dairy Technical
The focus on dairy farms is on calving, but it is important not to forget about your yearling replacement dairy heifers...
A livestock trading business based in Co. Westmeath has dispatched what is understood to be the first shipment of in-calf dairy heifers...
The management of replacement heifers at housing is vital to ensure that they continue to develop and growth targets are achieved.
The prices being achieved by dairy in-calf heifers has fallen by between €200-400/head, with prices from around €1,000 to €1,400 being paid.
With good grazing condition continuing on farms it may be time to start turning out your yearling heifers to grass for 2023.
The housing of livestock has begun on many farms, with many more just days away from housing their cows and heifers.
Once again, we're getting to the time of the year when the growth performance of heifer calves needs to be checked.
With Irish temperatures reaching heatwave levels in some areas, fly numbers will increase the threat of summer mastitis.
The tail end of the year is when surplus dairy heifers tend to be sold / bought, but with 2021 being a challenging year, have heifer prices decreased?
