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Title: Thrive weekly roundup: slaughter performance and securing dairy-beef payment

This week's dairy-beef programme roundup looks at the slaughter performance of the first cattle killed from the demo farm and outlines how farmers can secure the €400 dairy-beef programme payment.

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Beef > Management
04 September 2021
Declan Marren on 04 Sep 2021

Thrive weekly roundup: slaughter performance and securing dairy-beef payment

This week's dairy-beef programme roundup looks at the slaughter performance of the first cattle killed from the demo farm and outlines how farmers can secure the €400 dairy-beef programme payment.

Declan Marren
Beef > Management
4 September 2021

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This 550kg heifer had a 52.6% killout, 289kg carcase weight and graded O+4+ making €1,226.

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