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Getting winter ready with animal housing

Time is ticking on getting any routine maintenance that hasn't already been carried out completed on sheds.

11 September 2024 BUILDINGS
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Top five tips on getting ready for housing

Adam Woods takes a look at five tips on getting sheds ready for housing this winter.

31 August 2024
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Farmer Writes: cattle housed in August

At first the cows were rather indignant at being taken indoors so early in the year, writes Karen McCabe.

28 August 2024
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Farmer Writes: what to do before winter

Hopefully, the weather will do the decent thing, give us a good back end to the year and we’ll have weeks of grazing ahead of us yet, writes James Strain.

16 August 2024
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Calculating straw requirements this winter

With straw supplies set to be tight this year, Martin Merrick calculates how much straw you will likely require and how best to save on straw usage.

7 August 2024 BUILDINGS
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Frustration over ‘serial objectors’ to farm building works

South Tipperary farmers have raised serious concerns over delays to on-farm building works as a result of planning objections.

29 July 2024 BUILDINGS

Five maintenance jobs for cattle housing in late summer

While there will be plenty of field work to complete in summer, there are a few jobs that may need sorting in the yard around cattle housing. Outlined are a few examples.

27 July 2024 MANAGEMENT