Aidan Brennan takes a look at some of the key factors when managing high SCC and mastitis in dairy herds this autumn/winter.
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This comes from the National Disease Control’s ‘bluetongue virus update’, which points to midge activity as the main cause of the spread of BTV.
A combination of greater use of sexed semen, increased beef sire selection and reduced births is underpinning reduced births to dairy sires.
There are a variety of jobs going in dairy farm enterprises in Louth, Kilkenny, Waterford and Tipperary.
A war of words broke out between the floor and top table at a meeting for Arrabawn suppliers on the potential merger with Tipperary Co-op.
Growth and earnings in line with expectations for the year so far.
The letters issued to farmers who had been compliant with stocking rate limits over recent years.
Greenhills Dairies at Killeagh in east Cork has over 1,100ac of owned and leased land and milks close to 1,000 cows.
Peter Thomas Keaveney travelled to Vogelsang in Germany to check out the latest development in slurry separation, stabilisation and new application systems.