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SHARING OPTIONS: The upturn in weather has brought a significant increase in grass utilisation over the last week. After a tricky start, grazing conditions have improved significantly on Newford Farm over the last week. This has allowed the remaining yearling heifers, another batch of cows with calves at foot and yearling bullocks to be turned outdoors. This now leaves 50 cows and their calves, 56 yearling heifers and 39 yearling bullocks at grass. The cow...

Save the date: maximising suckler margins webinar 2021-03-07

Thrive roundup: demo farm struggles to leave a margin and managing calf arrival 2021-03-06

SHARING OPTIONS: The Duguids cows which have been fed on straw and urea molases to lose condition over winter before calving this spring. Their diet cost £1.10/day On a fine spring day, Robert Gilchrist and John Sleigh met with the Duguid family to discuss their preparations for calving and lambing. With the snow gone from all but the coldest corners of parks, the spring-like weather at the end of February is the boost Arthur, Muriel and Scott need, as th...

In the first of the Irish Farmers Journal From the Tramlines technical discussions of the year, we take a look at the role of Wolf Trax micro-nutrients in crop production. Produced by US-based Compass Minerals and distributed here in Ireland by Gouldings Fertilisers, Wolf Trax uses Dry Dispersible Powder (DDP) technology to deliver micro-nutrients to crops via granular fertiliser or foliar spray. The webinar sees an informative and lively discussion between the panellists across a variety of...

Dairylink Ireland participant James King. A virtual farm walk will take place on James King’s farm in Ballymena, Co Antrim on Wednesday 10 March 2021. James runs 195 Holstein cows in a predominantly autumn calving system. Topics that will be covered during the event include plans for getting cows out to grass, improving soil fertility, nutrient management plans and managing grass throughout the grazing season. Speakers at the event will include host farmer James King, Dairylink Ireland advis...

Watch: first cows and calves turned out on Tullamore Farm 2021-02-28

Newford heifers turned to grass on Wednesday. Newford Farm, the suckler-to-beef demonstration herd in Athenry, Co Galway, started the 2021 grazing season last Wednesday with a batch of 35 yearling heifers turned outdoors. The heifers were weighed on turnout, along with 21 more heifers which will be turned outdoors next Monday, and averaged 411kg liveweight. The heifers were housed for 120 days and achieved an average daily gain over the winter period of 0.52kg per day. Teagascs Michael Fagan...

Finishing cattle at grass on the Thrive demo farm last autumn. It is often said that there is as much variation within a breed as there is across breeds, and looking at the production data from the Thrive demonstration farm for the 2019-born stock, this certainly holds true. We must remember that this is a relatively small sample size and therefore we must be careful with any extrapolation of the data to a national scale. However, there are some positive outcomes from this dataset. The first ...

our team, please call us on 01-4199525 Farm programmes   More More Watch: Join us for the first session of the Tullamore Farm Virtual Series on Tuesday 23 March from 8.30pm on farmersjournal.ie and across social media. We talk sheep systems, breeding, animal health and much more. It’s FREE to watch and no pre-registration necessary . If you have a question for Darren Carty or the panel send them to webinar@farmersjournal.ie or text 086 836 6465 More