Beef finishing
Kieran Mailey on 24 Feb 2021
BETTER farm NI: £518 increase in GM/ha on bull finishing farms
This week, programme adviser Darryl Boyd analyses the profitability of the five farms finishing male cattle as young bulls.
Adam Woods on 05 Feb 2021
Beef factories pull cattle quotes for next week
Adam Woods has the latest on the beef trade, including news on next week’s quotes.
Kieran Mailey on 03 Feb 2021
BETTER farm NI: 10 steps to finishing spring-born bulls
Where spring-born bulls will be finished at 16 months of age, Kieran Mailey outlines 10 steps to transition animals through the final intensive feeding period.
Adam Woods on 03 Feb 2021
Tullamore Farm bulls: to sell or to finish?
Adam Woods takes a look at the Tullamore Farm bull performance and asks the question whether the 2020-born bulls would be better sold live or finished.
Adam Woods on 27 Jan 2021
2020: a year to forget for beef finishers
Beef editor Adam Woods takes a look back at the highs and lows of 2020 in the beef finishing business.
Adam Woods on 20 Jan 2021
Options for solving the BEAM problem
With €40 million of farmers money at stake, Adam Woods takes a look at solving the BEAM scheme issues and what the Department of Agriculture could do to alleviate the problems.
Darren Carty on 13 Jan 2021
Rubber slat mats deliver benefit in Teagasc finishing trial
A study carried out in grange recorded a 0.17kg higher daily liveweight in animals housed on rubber mats placed on concrete slatted floors compared to animals housed on just a concrete slatted floor.
Declan Marren on 19 Dec 2020
In pictures: slaughter performance of Thrive bullocks
The latest batch of bullocks were slaughtered this week from the Thrive demonstration farm. Declan Marren takes a look at carcase weight, kill-out percentages and conformation and fat scores.
Kieran Mailey on 02 Dec 2020
Feed prices up £10/t for December
Prices for compound animal feed in NI have been moving up steadily since the start of autumn.
Gary Abbott on 02 Dec 2020
Watch: JCB skid steer fits best for Limerick beef finisher
Gary Abbott travelled to meet Limerick beef finisher Pat Daily to find out why JCB has been his skid steer loader of choice for almost 20 years.
Gary Abbott on 25 Nov 2020
Galway contractor finds the balance with new M series
Gary Abbott travelled to South Galway to meet Paul McAllen of McAllen Agri having upgraded to a new John Deere 6195M, one of the new model large frame M series tractors earlier in the year.
Declan Marren on 31 Oct 2020
Thrive: dairy calf-to-beef weekly roundup
Declan Marren outlines what has been happening on the Thrive demo farm this week, with the last draft of cattle slaughtered off grass.
Gary Abbott on 14 Oct 2020
Kramer: 26 years tried and tested in Armagh
Gary Abbott meets Armagh beef finisher Robert Turner, now on his eighth Kramer wheel loader, to find out how his KL30.8 T is performing.
Darren Carty on 07 Oct 2020
Meal prices steady as sales volumes slowly increase
Prices in our survey tended to be higher along the west coast, but there was significant variation within regions depending on the quality of the concentrate in question and volumes being purchased.
Peter Thomas Keaveney on 01 Oct 2020
Watch: bedding 2,000 bulls in Meath with a Teagle straw blower
Finishing 2,000 bulls per year under the age of 16 months, Peter Thomas Keaveney caught up with Tara Farms Company Director James Feighery to find out why he’s running a Teagle 8555 Tomahawk.
Kieran Mailey on 30 Sep 2020
BETTER Farm NI: 10 steps to bull beef finishing systems
Bull beef systems have been the most profitable throughout the programme. Kieran Mailey outlines some of the steps followed by the programme farmers when finishing bulls.
Peter Thomas Keaveney on 30 Sep 2020
Teagle plays pivitol role on large scale beef finishing operation
Finishing in the region of 2,000 bulls per year, we caught up with Tara Farms Managing Director James Feighery to find out why he’s running a Teagle 8555 Tomahawk dual chop machine.
Adam Woods on 16 Sep 2020
Live winter finishing webinar on farmersjournal.ie
The Irish Farmers Journal will host a live winter finishing webinar on farmersjournal.ie next Wednesday night at 8pm. Find out how to watch and take part in the discussion here.
David Wright on 02 Sep 2020
A level playing field in beef finishing
The funding support from Stormont is being targeted at all beef farmers who took a hit due to coronavirus.
Barry Cassidy on 02 Sep 2020
Over 15,000 farmers apply for Beef Finisher Payment
Approximately 42,000 farmers are eligible for payment under the scheme, which closes for applications on 9 September.