Beef
Factory quotes: Prices edge up as 3 short weeks approach
This week’s factory quotes have seen beef price increase by 5c/kg in a few cases, but the majority of processors...
Heifer calves
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Managing heifer calves during winter months
Continued monitoring of your heifer calves is vital to ensure that growth targets are achieved ahead of breeding next year....
Dairy Technical
Have you weighed your replacement heifers?
As we move into autumn it is important to ensure that replacement heifers are achieving their growth targets. Grass growth...
Dairy Technical
Dairy advice: Monitoring weights in heifer calves
The recent improvement in weather has meant that anyone that didn’t have calves out has since put them out in...
Dairy Technical
Does contract rearing make sense for your farm?
Contract rearing dairy heifers has become increasingly more popular in recent years and further demand is expected. As the national...
Dairy Technical
Are your heifer calves on target?
In recent weeks, heifer calves have reached a significant milestone as they surpassed the six-months-old mark. This is a noteworthy...
Dairy Technical
Monitoring heifer growth performance
It is once again getting to the time of the year when the growth performance of heifer calves needs to...
Agri-Business
Kilkenny farmer shocked as dogs kill 4 dairy heifer calves
A Co. Kilkenny farmer said that he could not believe it when he discovered that two dogs had attacked and...
Dairy Technical
Monitoring target weights in heifer calves
As the breeding season is well underway on farms it is important not to forget heifer calves, and that their...