Maintaining calf performance at grass during first grazing season
Once calves are out and settled at grass, the focus quickly shifts to maintaining performance and hitting good weight gains throughout the grazing season. For spring-born dairy-bee...
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Once calves are out and settled at grass, the focus quickly shifts to maintaining performance and hitting good weight gains throughout the grazing season. For spring-born dairy-bee...
K-State beef cattle experts discuss how genetics, health and management decisions shape a heifer's lifetime productivity.
Over the coming week, the Teagasc DairyBeef 500 team will publish a two-part feature series on Agriland, accompanied by practical on-farm videos. ‘Managing your Calves at Grass – A...
Agriland recently paid a visit to the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow, where ABP Food Group’s Matthew Quinn gave an update on the spring 2026 calf rearing season. Quinn explained that...
As costs surge, farmers can look to streamline raising replacement cows by taking strategic steps to minimise cost while not compromising on the heifer’s health or fertility. Heife...
Australia’s beef-on-dairy sector is poised for rapid growth, with genetic improvement and collaborative advantages laying the groundwork for expansion, according to a new report, f...
Setting replacement heifers up for cowherd longevity is more than achieving a first pregnancy. It requires building females that remain productive within the constraints of their p...
Turning calves out to grass should be a step forward, not a setback. However, many farmers will notice calves taking a check in the first few weeks after turnout. Getting this tran...
Agriland visited University College Dublin’s (UCD) Lyons farm to witness their unusual approach to calf rearing post-weaning that is being trialled on site. The core focus of the t...
Transitioning calves to grass from the shed is one of the key tasks that must be managed successfully in any good calf-to-beef system. Farmers in the business of rearing calves wil...
Despite high calf prices since 2023, heifer retention remains minimal while beef cow culling hits record lows, signaling gradual progress toward expansion.
Beef-on-dairy may be reaching its limit as a portion of the U.S. beef supply chain.
The average farmer begins calving down on February 1 and finishes up within nine weeks, that means the last of the calves should be about 11-weeks-old by now. There may be a few st...
A livestock economist says a shift is underway in how farmers are balancing replacement heifers with breeding more beef-on-dairy animals. Abbi Groves with CoBank tells Brownfield n...
Young heifers offer flexibility and tax advantages when rebuilding cowherds after extended dry periods impact forage availability in the region.
Weekly auction data shows steer sales rising while heifer share drops to 39%, but retention levels still fall short of signaling herd expansion.
Cattle originating from the dairy herd accounted for 62% of the beef cattle processed in Ireland in 2025, according to data presented at BEEF2026. The national biennial beef open d...
Continued high attrition rates in the number of farmers rearing calves was highlighted as a “significant challenge” in the Irish dairy-calf-to-beef industry at a recent Teagasc far...
Average calf prices for the week ending Sunday, June 14, were above the average price for the year to date in most categories. According to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (IC...
During the mid-season, it is well worth weighing heifers born in late January and early February as they approach the six-month mark. The majority of farms often never weigh heifer...
A total of 680 store lambs were purchased by the ABP Demo Farm in Co. Carlow in August 2025 at an average weight of 31.3kg. The first of these lambs were drafted for slaughter at I...
New beef carcass performance data gathered from over 87,000 Irish beef cattle has shown some interesting trends in carcass performance and age at slaughter of dairy-beef cattle whe...
ABP is confirming the company’s continuing commitment to an integrated dairy calf-to-beef system in Northern Ireland. Significantly, the project is helping to deliver a sustainable...
Earlier this spring, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) introduced a policy where calves can be moved from one restricted herd to another, which is known as...
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