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On paper the cows have enough grass, but they are still cleaning out the silage and grazing out well.
British Simmental Society targets dairy herd with new initiative
Calf birth registrations running 36,469 head higher
Farmer uses jet ski to bring cows in for milking through flooded field
Calf price update: prices back across the board for main breeds
Dear Miriam: ‘my sister is sacrificing her own dreams to keep family farm going'
Fertiliser prices have continued to trend upwards in the last week across NI.
We had two cases of grass tetany last week and one case of bloat — problems we haven’t dealt with in years.
David Wright reports from a meeting on forage maize held by agronomists from Agrii.
With the weather forecast predicting better weather for next week, the hope is that fieldwork will continue.
We still have no fertiliser out on the crops, with some of the winter barley beginning to show signs that a first split of nitrogen should go out as soon as possible.
The other three sets of twins were a surprise - all twin heifers - and, to be fair, they calved themselves without any assistance.
A substantial dairy farm in the UK could prove tempting to Irish dairy farmers looking to invest abroad, writes Tommy Moyles.
Cutting clean in tough conditions: Conal Moore on running Krone EasyCut Mowers Conal Moore an agri contractor and tillage framer from Ballygar Co Galway. “We do a lot of reseeding, slurry spreading and tillage work but baling would be our main enterprise”.
