Dairy
Farmers must start looking ahead to the winter months and create a fodder budget to ensure they have adequate feed for the housed period
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The dry weather conditions during the summer months may have resulted in smaller amounts of winter feed being saved.
Silage is the number one feed on farms over the winter period. However, silage quality can negatively impact the performance of the herd.
As weather and growth rates have been favourable in recent weeks, many suckler farmers have managed to fill fodder deficits.
Grass
As next winter's feed reserves are now being used, farmers are beginning to turn their attentions to alternatives - such as wholecrop cereals - to bolster next winter's feed reserves.
Cereals are the backbone of a good ration and are an excellent source of starch in cattle diets, according to Teagasc's Aidan Murray.
