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Beef
Beef Management: silage fertiliser advice and turnout tips
Adam Woods
In this week's beef management notes Adam Woods takes a look at silage fertiliser, selling cull cows and tips for turnout
21 January 2025 Management
Scanning time for autumn-calving suckler herds
Cows calving in early autumn should be settled back in-calf at this point. With a buoyant beef trade, scanning will flag up empty animals which may be better off cashed in.
10 January 2025 Podcast
Farm Tech Talk: TB proposals on cows, scanning and TAMS slurry storage
This week, we hear of new TB proposals, scanning ewes and update on the new slurry storage grants under TAMS.
Feeding plans and the Sheep Improvement Scheme
A high percentage of flocks have selected the pregnancy scanning action, which requires farmers to group ewes into management groups that improves lamb survivability and reduces mortality.
8 January 2025 Grass & feeding
Scanning result is nothing to brag about
Derek Robinson had hoped his flock might have produced a scanning result closer to 200%.
1 January 2025 Northern Ireland
Five management jobs for January
While every farm has a long list of jobs to complete, outlined are a few tasks to consider in January.
31 December 2024 Management