Gerry Giggins: How whole-cropping can salvage your weather-damaged harvest
With record levels of rain and little sunshine in July, the second-cut silage, hay-making and grain harvest have been thrown into turmoil.
Source: independent.ie
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Eamon O'Connell: Sitting exhausted beside the dead calf, I was left asking myself, what could I have done to prevent this?
Suckler farming is in the spotlight again. The National Beef Welfare Scheme, like all schemes before it, has already come in for criticism, even before it has gotten off the ground.
Source: independent.ie
Angus Woods: Farm leaders now want to lower beef slaughter age — it's a shame this realisation has come so late
In the last three years the focus of farm politics has shifted dramatically, from problems within the beef sector, to problems within the dairy sector. Emissions reductions, the size of the dairy herd and the nitrates derogation, have moved attention away from beef production and the changes that are quietly taking place in the beef sector.
Source: independent.ie
Angus Woods: Veal production could be a solution to the calf problem – but only if the dairy sector funds it
RTÉ Investigates: Dairy’s Dirty Secret has put calf welfare back into the spotlight. The programme shone a light on some unacceptable practices in marts, breaches of transport legislation on the continent, and the slaughter of calves.
Source: independent.ie
How this Meath farmer changed his ?dosing strategy to avoid build-up of resistance
After last month’s coccidiosis outbreak, I weighed the calves in late June and even though performance was lower than I would like, they still averaged 124kg with an average daily gain since birth of 0.58kg.
Source: independent.ie