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Is a new small scale dairy now viable to create?

Martin Merrick highlights some of the infrastructure costs to setting up a new dairy enterprise, and if it’s a runner at all.

BUILDINGS 7 May 2025

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Dairy management: too much meal will reduce grass quality

Dairy management: too much meal will reduce grass quality

MANAGEMENT 7 May 2025

Dairy management: top tips for summer grassland management

Dairy management: top tips for summer grassland management

MANAGEMENT 5 May 2025

Dairy management: Nitrogen rates, phosphorus deficiency and butterfat drop

Dairy management: Nitrogen rates, phosphorus deficiency and butterfat drop

Dairy management: Nitrogen rates, phosphorus deficiency and butterfat drop

MANAGEMENT 30 April 2025

Dairy Management: heat detection the main task as breeding season kicks off

Dairy Management: heat detection the main task as breeding season kicks off

Dairy Management: heat detection the main task as breeding season kicks off

MANAGEMENT 28 April 2025

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Spring a good time to look at design for labour-friendly calf sheds

Spring a good time to look at design for labour-friendly calf sheds

Aidan Brennan looks at some new design ideas for calf sheds incorporating automatic calf feeders.

INFRASTRUCTURE 9 April 2025

Dairy Management: cold and wet reduces growth rates

Dairy Management: cold and wet reduces growth rates

Aidan Brennan has some advice for farmers dealing with lower grass growth rates, using sexed semen and managing calves

MANAGEMENT 9 April 2025

New Mycoplasma Bovis vaccine launched

New Mycoplasma Bovis vaccine launched

A new tool is available to dairy and beef farmers in their fight against the impacts of mycoplasma bovis disease. Aidan Brennan reports.

MANAGEMENT 9 April 2025

Dairy management: weather changes, breeding replacements and reseeding

Dairy management: weather changes, breeding replacements and reseeding

Aidan Brennan says that grass growth rates are variable so farmers must be taking careful action to ensure that the cows eat grass at the correct stage.

MANAGEMENT 9 April 2025

Dairy management: high risk for grass tetany

Dairy management: high risk for grass tetany

Cold and wet weather when cows are close to peak milk production is a high risk time for grass tetany, writes Aidan Brennan.

MANAGEMENT 9 April 2025

Dairy management: keeping pre-grazing yields at the right level

Dairy management: keeping pre-grazing yields at the right level

April can often be a difficult month to manage grass, but the risk this April is keeping quality right, writes Aidan Brennan.

MANAGEMENT 9 April 2025

Making best use of slurry separation

Making best use of slurry separation

AFBI’s Gary Lyons shares insights on maximising the benefits of on-farm mechanical slurry separation, drawing on experience from Northern Ireland.

RENEWABLES 9 April 2025

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Levelling up calf rearing with Teemore Mono Calf Building

Proper calf shed ventilation is crucial for maximising calf performance and profitability.

Levelling up calf rearing with Teemore Mono Calf Building

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