Beef Advice News Today

The swallows have landed but we still have a lot of animals inside. We are hoping for a mass turnout soon with the improvement in the weather.

Beef farms are generally less vulnerable to the toll of the incessant rain than highly stocked dairy farms.

Hidden deep in the pages of the recently published Ireland’s Draft National Biomethane Strategy January 2024 is a riddle. In spite of it being described as a farmer-focused and agri-led strategy, there is scant mention of farming stakeholders.

With the grass growing season fast approaching, I have started buying in the remainder of my stock for finishing off grass.

For the majority of livestock farmers, spring is physically the hardest season, with long days, broken sleep and the physical exertion of lambing and calving.

Calving kicked off in the first week of February with a difficult calving.

‘What’s this a going to cost me?” is a question I hear more and more often, but it never fails to stop me in my tracks.

Calving is well under way and so far there have been no major issues, but it is still early in the season, with the majority of the cows due in March and April.

Last week I spent time with some French colleagues travelling throughout Ireland, and they gave me plenty of insight into the farmer protests in their country.

We have completed the sale of our under-16-month bulls and the analysis of their returns make for interesting reading.