Silage quality

This week's Beef Management takes a look at breeding indoors, sexed semen use, injection site management and looking after first calving heifers.

Once the silage pit is open, it is important to keep the clamp face clean to prevent high levels of waste forage accumulating.

After the challenging 2023 season,contractor Jonathan Kirkpatrick invested in a Pöttinger twin-rotor rake with plastic skids instead of wheeled bogies, to reduce grass contamination

Aisling Claffey, Teagasc nutrition specialist, outlines some of the key factors when it comes to feeding winter milk herds this winter.

Not one, but two summers in a row where there has been difficulty securing fodder reserves, has really strained farmers.

With some variable silage quality out there, Martin Merrick discusses what concentrates need to be fed to hit target weight gains.

Edward O'Callaghan farms in Cavan. He's hoping to lamb 130 ewes next year around Easter.

The data is taken from around 650 farms across the country and is a follow-up to a survey in late June.