Dairy
The dairy trade is still looking quite strong in marts this week, as the bulk of spring calving winds down on many farms.
There was a strong trade for fresh calved heifers at Carnew Mart where a number of fresh calved cows and heifers were sold...
Your winter milk herd would have started to calve down from the start of October and now that we are about six weeks into calving, the...
Calves are still coming thick and fast for the autumn calving herds and carrying out a Californian milk test (CMT) will help with early...
Dairy Technical
Shortly after calving is a high risk period forEacherichia coli (E. coli) mastitis, which is commonly associated with severe toxic mastitis.
Beef
A Cavan suckler farmer has said that only for his wife he would not have survived being attacked by a cow in his yard.
The management of freshly calved cows in important with most issues with cows happening in the period shortly after calving.
