Dairy
Over the next few weeks it is important to continually assess your dry cow management to ensure cows down at the correct BCS.
In episode four of Agriland's limited podcast 'The Dairy Trail', which aired earlier this week, John Byrne spoke about reducing SCC.
Farmers will be busy drying off cows over the coming month, but the question must be asked, what what is the best procedure to take?
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Agriland visited the farm of Tom, Mary and their son Michael Ryan in Lisheen, just outside...
Dairy News
Agriland visited the farm of Tom, Mary and their son Michael Ryan in Co. Tipperary to see how an award winning herd is preparing for dry-off.
Farmers will be preparing to dry-off underconditioned cows over the next two weeks considering February is only 11 short weeks away.
Managing a cows diet as she transitions from grass to housing has being tricky for a lot of farms as poor weather drove cows in.
Over the coming weeks, farmers will using milk recording data to decided which cows to need to be dried off first.
We are quick approaching the end of the 2025 milking season, meaning farmers must be preparing to dry off their cows.
The transition period management has got to be of a high standard, as many autumn calving herds will begin to start calving down...
We are a the stage now where the first of the autumn calving cows will be dried off in the coming days and that dry cow management and...
As the Christmas period continues on, it is important to be critiquing your dry cow management and ensuring cows are getting their...
Inadequate pre-calving feeding during the dry off period can have a drastic impact on calf health and poor colostrum formation which in...
The focus turns to dry cow management at this time of the year as many of the autumn calving cows are dried off at this stage...
Dairy Technical
Depending on the planned start of calving or due dates of cows, dry cow minerals may already need to be the diet of your cows.
Milk fever is unfortunately an issue that will likely have to be dealt with on farms calving cows this autumn.
Getting the dry cow period and transition period right is key to autumn-calving cows having a successful lactation.
Getting your dry cow management right is a key component to having a successful calving season on dairy farms.
On the majority of spring-calving herds the cows are now dry, and it is now time to start looking at dry cow minerals.
The transition period on autumn-calving farms has now begun, during which dry cow management is key.
