Dairy
Take the effort out of tail-painting with this clever approach
Just when we’ve started to relax as the calving season comes to an end, we’re heading on into another extremely...
Dairy
Just when we’ve started to relax as the calving season comes to an end, we’re heading on into another extremely...
Beef
The number of suckler-bred calves born – so far this year – has fallen by 26,237 head when compared to...
Dairy
Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) co-operative recently reported a $1.1 billion drop in milk sales for 2018 compared to the...
Dairy
Danone – one of the world’s leading food companies – has announced the official opening of its new state-of-the-art Nutricia...
Dairy
New research means that you can now breed dairy and beef animals that have a greater resistance to a tuberculosis...
Dairy
Insufficient farm infrastructure is one of the main causes of lameness in dairy herds. This could be anything from poor...
Dairy
The breeding season is fast approaching and preparation is a key component to a successful breeding season. What some farmers...
Featured
The Duggans run a streamlined, low-cost, spring-calving operation on the undulating slopes of south-east Laois. Eamonn Duggan has been farming...
Dairy
Feeding antibiotic milk or ‘waste milk’ can potentially cause antibiotic resistance if fed to young dairy calves. Waste milk is...
Dairy
“I feel that lameness needs to be brought up on the agenda. There is a lot of talk about carbon...
Beef
Live cattle exports are vital to the Irish beef industry. In a sector where beef processors have the monopoly, getting...
Dairy
With milder conditions in store for this week, farmers should consider turning out some older calves to grass. Early turnout...
Featured
Do you know, that one vaccination of a primary vaccination course against clostridial diseases provides little or no immunity to...
Featured
Farming in Ardcroney, just outside Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Matt Cleary runs a herd of approximately 300 cows under a spring-calving...
Dairy
Cryptosporidiosis or ‘crypto’ is the leading cause of scour in young calves and its prevalence is becoming more and more...
Dairy
“Many farmers look at improving their grassland management as a negative to having robots, which is more of a positive...
Dairy
Achieve higher conception rates this breeding season through close monitoring of your herd’s body condition score (BCS). The BCS of...
Dairy
Get priority access to the next generation of genetics through the national dairy breeding programme – Gene Ireland. Gene Ireland,...