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James Strain on farm with his daughter. Previous Next Last weekend was an eventful one on the farm. Saturday morning began with scanning all the cows that were served over 28 days ago. The results were good, with almost everything displaying to be in-calf. I was a little disappointed, however, to have two cows that were served 44 days ago, scan empty. I had been keeping a fairly tight eye on them, or at least I thought I was. But I must have missed at least one repeat ...

SHARING OPTIONS: Lambing management will be the topic of discussion during a webinar on Thursday 4 March, starting at 7.30pm. \ Philip Doyle On Thursday 4 March at 7.30pm, the NI Sheep Programme will hold a pre-lambing management webinar. Hosting the event will be programme farmer James McCay. James runs an upland and hill farm at Drumquin, Co Tyrone. The farm averaged 300 breeding ewes in 2020, split evenly between upland and hill ground. Nutrition and ...

SHARING OPTIONS: The focus in the flocks is to utilise green grazing or in-bye land at key time frames, while maximising the duration of time ewes spend on hill grazing. Nearly all of the Teagasc BETTER Farm hill sheep flocks have finished pregnancy scanning in the past couple of weeks and overall the scanning rates and litter sizes are quite good, as presented in Table 1. Pregnancy scanning is a very important management tool for all sheep farmers and th...

Diana Wichtel on the new normal and how it is quickly undone by presidential falsehoods and mutating viruses 19 Feb, 2021 03:00 AM 4 minutes to read Political theatre or reality? Photo / Getty Images By: Diana Wichtel It was a weekend of the Big Gay Out, the Americas Cup … We spent time with friends, out and about, scanning and masking as required. We were living, if not the dream, then at least our slightly nervous nearly normal. Then the country was back into degrees of lo...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Calls for tracer scanning to be compulsory after latest cases didnt use app 17 Feb, 2021 04:33 AM 5 minutes to read NZ COVID Tracer app overview. Video / Ministry of Health Social issues reporter, NZ Heraldmichael.neilson@nzherald.co.nz That the latest Covid-19 cases had not been using the tracer app was "quite typical" to the rest of the country, says an expert who is calling for a new approach targeting high-risk areas. While it had previously been reported the three cas...

Covid 19: Supermarkets support mandatory tracer app use proposal 17 Feb, 2021 01:57 AM 4 minutes to read The scanning of the Covid-19 tracer app may become mandatory for entry into businesses. Photo / Dean Purcell The scanning of the Covid-19 tracer app may become mandatory for entry into businesses. Photo / Dean Purcell Big businesses, including major supermarkets, are supportive of the potential move to make Covid-19 tracer app scanning mandatory. This week Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hi...

Covid 19 coronavirus: Govt considering making tracer app use mandatory 16 Feb, 2021 08:00 PM 3 minutes to read All the major coronavirus events of 2021. In a bid to boost the number of people scanning the Covid-19 tracer app, the Government is actively considering mandating its use. More than two million people are registered for the app nationwide but the January average of scans per day fell to just 465,000. Advertisement One of the reasons the Government had been hesitant to make using the ...

QR codes at supermarkets: 81-year-old Havelock North mans campaign to get them at counters 15 Feb, 2021 10:06 PM 3 minutes to read Havelock North man Patrick Dingemans has led a successful campaign to get supermarkets around the Hawkes Bay to display additional QR codes at the checkout. Photo / Warren Buckland Patrick Dingemans, 81, diligently scans QR codes for Covid-19 tracing purposes wherever he goes. Since about October, hes grown increasingly frustrated by fellow shoppe...

Scanning works: NHS Covid app prevented 600,000 UK coronavirus infections 10 Feb, 2021 04:24 AM 4 minutes to read Increased use of the app led to a decrease in the spread of the virus. Photo / Getty Images Increased use of the app led to a decrease in the spread of the virus. Photo / Getty Images Financial Times By: Tim Bradshaw and Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan The NHS contact-tracing app has prevented the transmission of hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 cases in England and Wales, r...

SHARING OPTIONS: This batch of Texel-cross ewes which reared lambs as yearlings and are carrying two lambs each recorded the top price of €245 each. This batch of nine Suffolk x Mule cross three and four year old ewes carrying an average of two lambs each (five twins, two triplets and two singles) sold for €215. These four two-year old Suffolk x Mule cross ewes with three carrying twin lambs and one single litter sold for €218. These five Texel x Mu...