CellCheck
Aidan Brennan on 13 Oct 2021
How to successfully dry off your herd
Michelle McGrath from Animal Health Ireland outlines the steps involved in ensuring a successful drying-off procedure.
Aidan Brennan on 25 Nov 2020
CellCheck Milking For Quality: Best 500 and Discussion Group Awards
Animal Health Ireland announces the winners of the Cell Check award from each Co-Op and the winners of the Discussion Group category.
Contributor on 16 Sep 2020
What is causing cows to cough?
In this article by Animal Health Ireland specialists, the common causes and cures for coughing cows is explored.
Jack Kennedy on 04 Mar 2020
National SCC levels improve
Animal Health Ireland Cellcheck co-ordinator Finola McCoy explains where national average SCC results have moved.
Amii McKeever on 21 Nov 2019
Significant improvements in SCC since inception of CellCheck Awards
A positive outlook for the future was evident at the CellCheck Milking for Quality Awards ceremony held in the Lyrath Hotel, Kilkenny, on Wednesday 20 November.
Jack Kennedy on 02 Oct 2019
50% of mastitis cases happen at dry-off
Farmers need to take hygiene more seriously at the drying-off period with mastitis a significant risk if not done correctly.
Jack Kennedy on 05 Dec 2018
Dairy management: get your head lamp out for drying off
Drying off cows is important to get right and a vision for fertility is also important, writes Jack Kennedy.
Jack Kennedy on 30 Nov 2018
Annual milk quality awards in Kilkenny
To get a ticket to the AHI Cellcheck awards, you need your milk supply SCC to be less than 72,000 for the year, writes Jack Kennedy.
Tommy Heffernan on 06 Nov 2018
Journal vet Tommy Heffernan went to AHI workshop on selective dry cow therapy
Animal Health Ireland recently launched there selective dry cow therapy program with veterinary training and farmer events across the country advising farmers
Eleanor McBennett on 28 Sep 2016
Mastitis control programme
Mastitis (Staphylococcus aureus) becomes increasingly hard to cure every time that it recurs in a dairy herd.
Jack Kennedy on 25 Nov 2015
Milking parlours and quality milk messages are on the agenda this week
Getting cow flow right in and out of the milking parlour is crucial to the success of the milking process on dairy farms.
Aidan Brennan on 12 Aug 2015
Focus: Where to now for the CellCheck programme?
The CellCheck programme is now in its fifth year. Aidan Brennan asks Finola McCoy how it's performing and what the next steps are for the programme which was set up by the industry to tackle high SCC.
Jack Kennedy on 13 Aug 2014
CellCheck workshops aim to help improve mastitis control
CellCheck events aim to help farmers understand causes of mastitis and ways of improving SCC levels.
Contributor on 08 Jan 2014
Cellcheck is the arm of AHI responsible for improving milk somatic cell count
We are now less than 450 days away from the abolition of milk quotas, so putting udder health and milk quality high on the radar for 2014 is critical says Finola McCoy*, Programme Manager, CellCheck.
Odile Evans on 30 Nov -0001
Winners of CellCheck awards announced
Animal Health Ireland has announced the winners of its CellCheck Milking for Quality Awards for the lowest somatic cell counts (SCCs).
Jack Kennedy on 30 Nov -0001
Top 500 dairy farmers honoured at CellCheck awards
The top 500 farmers ranked on cell count were invited to a ceremony in Dublin this week in recognition of the milk quality they delivered.
Patrick Donohoe on 30 Nov -0001
Glanbia dominates CellCheck awards
Dairy farmers were recognised for their excellent somatic cell count (SCC) results at a ceremony on Thursday night.
Patrick Donohoe on 30 Nov -0001
My farming week: Padraig Ó Scanaill, Swords, Co Dublin
After an award-winning week for Co Dublin dairy farmer Padraig Ó Scanaill, it's back to the routine of milking cows.