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Beef
Five tips for moving cattle from a store to finishing phase
Kieran Mailey
Where farmers are considering moving cattle on to a finishing diet as beef price increases, outlined are some tips to follow.
4 September 2024 Northern Ireland
Winter finishers need 529p/kg to breakeven
Before committing to filling sheds with store cattle for winter finishing, farmers should complete a budget.
12 March 2024 Management
Have finishing cattle feed and lying space?
Space requirements for feeding and lying have a big bearing on daily liveweight gain during the final intensive finishing period.
Five tips to move store cattle into the finishing period
Moving cattle from a store phase to intensive finishing diet involves more than just increasing meal levels.
9 December 2023 Management
Five tips for finishing cattle off grass
With falling beef prices, farmers need to give serious consideration to grass finishing. Outlined are five things to keep in mind.
8 July 2023 Management
Making a call on cattle to finish out of the shed
With an extremely strong live ring, farmers should be looking through forward stores in the shed and deciding on what to finish, graze or offload.
28 March 2023 Management
Is ad-lib meal feeding still an option in 2022?
Adam Woods takes a look at the economics of ad-lib meal feeding and whether it’s still a runner with meal at €420/tonne.
26 October 2022 Feed
THRIVE: indoor finishing period commences for bullocks
The finishing bullocks were housed on the THRIVE demo farm last week as grass supply could no longer sustain them outside.
14 September 2022 Grass & feeding
Is there a margin in finishing cattle off grass?
Where farmers are planning to finish cattle off grass, a budget should be completed beforehand to determine if there is a margin to be had.
22 June 2022 Northern Ireland
Five tips for finishing cattle at grass
For farmers planning to kill cattle off grass in the coming weeks, outlined are five tips to consider.
18 June 2022 Management