Dairy
Autumn calving: Time to prepare for the breeding season
For your typical autumn calving herd, we are around four weeks into the calving season, and it won’t be long...
Heat Detection
Dairy Technical
Recording heats as breeding start date nears
As the breeding draws closer, it is important that dairy farmers begin to record heats and take action on cows...
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Give your dairy hygiene programme a spring clean
Having a dairy hygiene programme in place is crucial, as when spring arrives, Irish dairy farmers are in the thick...
Dairy Technical
Breeding season dealing with non-cycling cows
The breeding season is now underway on the vast majority of Irish dairy farms for 2023, and for the first...
Dairy Technical
Breeding season gets underway on farms
The 2023 breeding season has gotten underway on the majority of Irish dairy farms, which means the workload on farms...
Dairy Technical
Breeding: Time to start recording heats
With the breeding season just around the corner it is important that farmers begin recording heats to ensure the best...
Dairy Technical
Heat detection for the 2022 breeding season
Accurate heat detection is an important component to achieving a successful breeding season on dairy farms. Detecting cows in heat...
Dairy Technical
Using tail paint for heat detection
Heat detection plays a crucial part in determining the number of cows submitted, and the number of cows correctly submitted...
Dairy Technical
Using heat detection to achieve key reproductive targets
During the recent Teagasc/ICBF (Irish Cattle Breeding Federation) breeding week, three key reproductive targets were identified as being critically important...
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Watch: The multipurpose material for the agricultural sector
Discover how Stokbord is the multipurpose material for the agricultural sector and is taking the agricultural and equestrian world by...
Dairy Technical
Heat detection methods to achieve high submission rates
Adequate heat detection is one of the most important components of a successful breeding season and heat detection methods can...
Dairy
Thoughts now turn to dairy breeding season
As the calving season begins to quieten down on many farms across the country, focus now turns to getting prepared...
Dairy
Have you considered a heat-detection system for breeding 2020?
Research shows that less than 60% of the national dairy herd calves in the first six weeks of the calving...
Dairy
One week left to enter massive Censortec heat detection giveaway
Imagine winning the world’s leading heat detection and health monitoring system. Well, this is your last chance. The draw for...
Dairy
'Vasectomised bulls make picking up heifers a piece of cake'
Poor or inaccurate heat detection is the main cause of missed heats or false heats (wrongly submitted cows for breeding)....
Dairy
Could the MooMonitor+ be the answer to less antibiotic usage on farms?
Two new studies on the Dairymaster MooMonitor+ system – for monitoring cows behaviour – show an “extremely high accuracy of...
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Real profits start after 3rd lactation - are your cows making it?
Are you aware that the real profits begin after the third lactation? Research shows that it typically takes two lactations...
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
6 aids to take the 'guesswork' out of heat detection
Heat detection aids can help identify bulling cows and this is particularly important for herds using AI. Identifying cows on...
Beef
5 no-nonsense heat detection aids
Heat detection aids can help identify bulling cows and this is particularly important for herds using AI. Identifying cows on...
Dairy
'Modern dairy heat detection systems do work'
Modern heat detection systems, which monitor cow movement and activity levels, do work according to the College of Agriculture, Food...