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Marks cows are on ad-lib baled silage. This week, we headed to a dry and frosty Caithness to catch up with Mark and Shona MacKay at Greenvale on the very north coast of Scotland. The 368ha unit has a mixture of land types, from good arable land that grows barley, to a sandy hill where Mark outwinters cattle, through to bog land that has been put into environmental schemes. Mark and Shona have been increasing the productivity of the farm during the Farm Profit Programme. The key to this has bee...

Weanlings are receiving 2kg of a high-energy 16% crude protein ration along with ad-lib silage. Newford Farm recently weighed 2020-born bullocks and heifers to gauge performance to date over the winter. The bullocks weighed 397kg on average on 15 January and recorded an average daily gain (ADG) since housing on 30 October of 0.55kg per day. The group has an ADG since birth of 1.09kg. Performance over the housing period is running slightly behind the 2019-born batch (0.65kg/day), but their li...

Dairylink: calving nearing completion in Derry 2021-01-20

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Dry cows are fed ad-lib baled silage on the Wallace farm. Stephen and Hazel Wallace are aiming to strike a balance between driving milk output from silage and concentrates, while feeding cows as efficiently as possible. The 210-cow Holstein herd has a mainly autumn calving profile. There are 150 cows calved down so far and calving is due to be finished by the end of February. Last year, average milk yield was 7,710l from 2.5t of concentrates. Local animal nutritionist Lyle Hamilton has develop...

BETTER Farm NI: five management jobs for January 2021-01-06

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