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Beef
Clipping cattle following housing
Kieran Mailey
With cattle now housed for winter, clipping animals can provide multiple benefits.
25 November 2024 News
2024 CellCheck award winners announced
The awards aim to recognise the excellence achieved by Irish dairy farmers in herd health, specifically those who achieve a consistently low somatic cell count in their dairy herds.
28 October 2024 Winter Indoor Management
Top tips for preventing mastitis this winter
Aidan Brennan takes a look at some of the key factors when managing high SCC and mastitis in dairy herds this autumn/winter.
Aiming for high health this winter
Adam Woods previews what’s inside this week’s special indoor health management focus.
23 October 2024 Breeding & health
Lack of grass means I am feeding bales and zero grazing
We have only had 27mm of rain in June and that is restricting things now,writes Laois dairy farmer Padraig Callanan.
26 June 2024 Farmer Writes
Meal bucket helps keep mastitis from ewe lambs
Derek Robinson has been feeding high levels of meal to new mothers rearing doubles.
26 June 2024 Farmer Writes
Beef Management: grazing stemmy covers, fly control and scanning
Martin Merrick details how best to utilise heavy covers, controlling flies to prevent summer mastitis and why an early scanning of cows may be beneficial to farmers.
19 June 2024 Management