Farmers Journal Scotland
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BVD changes for 2020 will require quarantine of PIs
Farmers who find a PI on their holding must keep them housed separately from all other animals from spring next year.
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Farm Profit Programme: plans for scanning and dealing with empty cows
As the breeding season comes to an end on most of the focus farms, attention turns to scanning results and getting empty cows out of the system. Declan Marren reports
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Antibiotic resistance affects us all. Come take a look inside a real human hospital, listen to a personal experience of dealing with AMR and see how it is being dealt with in this week's One Health video: One Health: 8. A critical human health issue
Gary Abbott caught up with tillage contractor Brian Tallon harvesting fodder beet near Clogherhead. Brian and his son Andrew specialize in root crop harvesting.
Check out the highlights of this years Charolais Christmas Cracker
Hanrahan Plant Hire LTD are offering a road renovation service that makes best use of materials already present
Looking at top tips for better beef health this winter
Top tips on how water can be such an important component of animal health this winter
Peter Thomas Keaveney reports from a visit to an on-farm sheep sale at Eskvale Station, which is located in North Canterbury on the South Island, New Zealand.
The International Biogas and Bioenergy Centre of Competence (IBBK) is a combination and network of experts and companies, as well as groups of interest and educational institutes in the field of biogas and bioenergy. This year they hosted two biogas training course in Enniskillen.
Peter Thomas Keaveney speaks to Brook Nettleton from Blue Grass Contracting in Matamata, a contracting business in the Waikato region in New Zealand who charge for harvesting traded grass and maize on a c/kg DM basis.
The new 26 point rapid exit Dairymaster parlour has shortened milking times substantially on this 350 cow farm.
Farm Profit Programme: Suckler herd performance – the keys to profit
This week Robert Gilchrist looks at analysing the performance of the suckler herd.
Farm Profit Programme: profit from forage meeting at Arnage
Forage crops are on the menu for both cattle and sheep at Arnage farm this winter. Declan Marren reports on the open meeting held on the farm this week.
Farm Profit Programme: 210kg weaned calf needed to cover variable costs
The focus farms have now completed scanning and it is time to consider what to do with cull cows. Declan Marren writes.
Farm Profit Programme: tips for grazing winter forage crops
Forage crops offer many advantages to livestock farms. Getting basic management decisions correct will maximise these benefits, writes Declan Marren.
