Sheep
The importance of protein in the diet in late pregnancy
Nutrition during late gestation influences ewe body reserve mobilisation, colostrum production, lamb birth weight, lamb vigour and lamb survival. Late...
Sheep
Nutrition during late gestation influences ewe body reserve mobilisation, colostrum production, lamb birth weight, lamb vigour and lamb survival. Late...
Dairy
A UK-grown sustainable feed that can replace soya in dairy cow rations has scooped this year’s Royal Dairy Innovation Award...
Dairy
The Dairy Council for Northern Ireland, in conjunction with the European Milk Forum, recently hosted a webinar highlighting the impact...
Tillage
A leading Co. Down tillage farmer has confirmed that field beans are an extremely valuable break crop within all cereal...
Agri-Business
There has been a downward trend in the protein content of animal feed rations since 2015. This is according to...
Tillage
This week, Boortmalt issued some advice to farmers on sowing rate and nitrogen (N) application rates in the late sowing...
Agri-Business
“People want to know the environmental credentials and footprint of what they’re buying.” Philip Lynch is the soybean meal trader...
Beef
The EU published the EU Feed Protein Balance Sheet for 2017/2018 this week. A total of 85 million tonnes of...
Tillage
“Soya was grown in Ireland for the first time in 2018,” according to David Shortall of Quinns of Baltinglass. Quinns...
Tillage
The spring barley harvest moved into top gear this week and the real situation of yields and protein contents has...
Opinion
After 18 months or so of battening down the hatches those new, post-quota entrants into Irish dairy are now seeing...
Agri-Business
Leading international businesses and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have formed The Protein Challenge 2040, the world’s first protein system coalition. Protein...