When a cow calves, their energy requirements increase by 30% and need to be fed accordingly for milk production and reducing ...

A reduction in calf births and strong live exports are feeding into a declining cattle herd, with over 233,000 fewer animals ...

Beyond the challenge of balancing cow size with terminal performance, cow-calf operations frequently assess efficiency on a per-cow basis. However, in forage-limited systems, land, not cows is the ...

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When weaning calves, reducing stress must be your priority. Stressed weanlings are much more prone to illness, such as pneumonia, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy Grass quality is currently ...

The total number of calves registered in Ireland to date this year has declined by over 54,000 head, according to the latest ...

A decision to keep a heifer that looked “the best of the bunch”, despite her borderline pelvic score, taught Stuart Gowling a valuable lesson. The heifer went on to need a caesarean section. As a ...

Suckler cows at the Banff and Buchan Monitor Farm are trialling new electronic rumen bolus technology, hoping to give farmer ...

Martin Glennon explains how cash-flow is key on his 130 enterprise where he breeds commercial cows and pedigree Simmentals, and rears dairy-bred calves Martin Glennon on the family suckler farm in ...

The most recent Jalex Select sale saw heights of £17,000 for the sale leader, but James Alexander says the real success story ...