Autumn calving: Using calf health as the key to success
Calving is only around the corner for a lot of autumn herds, meaning preparations for optimal calf health should be well underway. Winter milking can be a costly practice in the be...
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Calving is only around the corner for a lot of autumn herds, meaning preparations for optimal calf health should be well underway. Winter milking can be a costly practice in the be...
Dr. Robin Falkner, beef cattle technical consultant, unpacks a simple truth that can change your whole year: spring calving starts in the fall
With the autumn calving season approaching, farmers must be on the lookout for the risk of milk fever and any other metabolic issues. Milk fever (hypocalcemia) is a metabolic disor...
With autumn calving underway and calves starting to flow through mart rings, farmers must continue to be aware of bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD). As it stands, BVD is continuing to f...
Teagasc will host a series of beef mart events this autumn at marts across the country, focusing on breeding top quality weanlings. They will also cover practical management strate...
Autumn is the starting point of the grassland year, Teagasc has said. Management and decisions made in this period have a direct effect on the quality and availability of grass the...
Successful reproductive performance is crucial to the long-term profitability of every dairy farm. Yet the period around calving is about much more than reproductive figures alone....
Dairy sales are starting to pick up as we enter the back end of the season, with stock moving through Irish and UK marts once again. With that, dairy bulls are making their way bac...
Having the appropriate paddock size will be critical over the autumn following a tough couple of months. Grass is growing again, and the majority of the country will have fresh gra...
With the milking season coming to an end, farmers should be aiming to carry out at least one more milk recording this autumn. We have reached the final few months of the lactation...
Achieving average weaning weights of 112kg does not happen by accident. For Patrick and Valerie Sheehy, it starts with meticulous calf management, high-quality nutrition and invest...
Three culprits may include late-gestation heat stress, toxic fescue and genetics.
Five calves of the rare Vaynol cattle breed have been born on Temple Newsam’s Home Farm near Leeds in the UK. The new arrivals form part of only about 100 cattle of the breed in th...
Now that we are in October, the end of the 2026 milking season is in sight, meaning farmers must start deciding which cows should be culled and when to cull them. There is plenty o...
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has released its September evaluations, leading to another re-ranking of the active bull list. The current evaluations is what many wint...
The focus for beef farmers in October will switch from building grass covers to closing paddocks in rotation to provide grass for next spring. According to Teagasc beef specialist,...
Winter beef finishers have started to move out to marts to commence buying store cattle for the 2026/2027 season. Winter beef finishing is a high cost and higher-risk business as o...
A dairy farm manager in Co. Meath has experienced a career first with the arrival of a rare set of triplet heifer calves. Patrick Dunne, who manages the pedigree Fleckvieh herd on...
For Co. Kerry dairy farmer Maurice Harty, getting the most from a high-performing cow starts with making the most of the genetics in the herd. At Ballylongane Pedigree Holstein Fri...
A pedigree Galloway cow has stunned breeders by giving birth to four healthy calves – three bulls and a heifer – in what could be a remarkable first for the historic breed. Politic...
Despite a slow start, the autumn dairy trade is starting to pick up this week, with numerous sales now taking place across the country. One such sale included the annual Carnaross...
September is just around the corner, and with it comes the preparations required for the autumn planting season of 2026. Rain is forecast for most areas over the coming days. So th...
For farmer Fergal Hanrahan, successful calf rearing comes down to getting the basics right from day one. Farming outside Charleville while working full-time off-farm, he purchases...
Now we have entered the autumn months, farms will be looking to keep milk production stable ahead of the expensive winter months. But with the spring calving lactation in its final...
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