Page 4 - Skill Out News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Finishing cattle at grass in August last year. These heifers were receiving 3kg/d concentrates. 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. With all the 2019-born animals now slaughtered, we are able to look at some of the facts and figures from the group. 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.

SHARING OPTIONS: There is more appetite than normal at this time of the year for ewe hoggets with breeding potential. The mart trade continues to enjoy a rich vein of form, with all classes of stock meeting a vibrant trade. There have been a few reports of spring lambs meeting an easier trade and prices easing by €3 to €7 for lighter lambs, but where this has occurred, it has generally been from a higher-than-average price point in the week previous. There is quite a bit of price variation within sales for lambs of a similar weight but variable qua...

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 and most important of these is a positive correlation between the DBI, value of beef and the carcase...