To farmers who are unfamiliar with winter grazing fodder crops, kale and fodder beet can appear to provide very similar feeds. In fact, there are many points of difference, from yield and cattle ...

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Ned Morrissey farms 370 ewes on his 30-hectare farm at Dunhill, Co Waterford. At roughly 13 ewes/ha, it's an intensive farming system by any standards. What is intriguing about his system is that he ...

As always the Farm team are keeping one eye on the weather, with perfect timing on the silage cuts and fodder beet drilling before any more rain arrived. The decision to increase the grazing platform ...

The huge increase in the cost of concentrates and fertilisers should prompt us to consider carefully the cost relationships between the various feed options we have, going from grazed grass, grass ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of stand-off surface type on cow lying behaviour, cleanliness and lameness. One hundred and sixty Friesian × Jersey crossbreed, pregnant ...

The extended wet and wintery weather has been at the forefront of farmers' concerns in the past few weeks. This past week’s weather saw farmers pulling animals back indoors full-time as grazing ...