Dairy Technical
CalfCare webinar: Preventing bloat in young calves
Bloat in young calves was one of the topics discussed at this week’s online CalfCare event run by Animal Health...
Dairy Technical
Bloat in young calves was one of the topics discussed at this week’s online CalfCare event run by Animal Health...
Dairy
Carnaross Mart held its weekly calf sale on Monday, January 17, with Padraig McIlroy, the mart’s manager describing the trade...
Dairy Technical
Attracting and keeping staff on many Irish dairy farms continues to be an issue as the busy spring-calving period approaches....
Dairy Technical
The festive period is now over and spring-calving farms are gearing up for the calving season, with transition cow management...
Dairy Technical
Milk replacer is an important part of the calf rearing process on many farms, as it has many nutritional and...
Dairy Technical
The spring-calving season is fast approaching, meaning that the arrival of calves on farms is just around the corner. Dairy...
Dairy Technical
Labour continues to be an issue on many Irish dairy farms, with good help hard to find and even harder...
Dairy Technical
For a spring-calving herd the busiest time of the year is the calving season, so getting ahead of yourself and...
Beef
As the spring-calving season falls upon us, it is important to always be vigilant of pregnant cows and heifers that...
Video
How to test the quality of colostrum using a Brix Refractometer and top tips on stomach tubing a calf colostrum.
Beef
The calving period on suckler farms across the country is well underway. However, the inclement and adverse weather – in...
Dairy
Spring calving is one of the busiest times of the year for Irish dairy farmers. For six-to-seven weeks, the workload...
Dairy
Against a backdrop of long hours and difficulty sourcing labour, a growing number of Irish dairy farmers are turning to...
Dairy
A team of researchers in Teagasc Moorepark are putting ABCD robotic grazing to the test for the first time under...
Dairy
David Clarke, a livestock supplier and exporter, has seen a 20% increase in the export of freshly calved or in-calf...
Beef
Increased dairy cow numbers have driven an increase in the number of calf births this year, new figures show. According...
Beef
At this time of the year with the start of spring-calving approaching it’s a good time for farmers to think...
Beef
With calving just around the corner, we take a look at the state-of-the-art calving facilities in Teagasc Grange. The Derrypatrick...