Dairy
Managing the Cow Around Drying Off
0 Managing the Cow Around Drying Off Leonard Betts, Teagasc discusses managing the cow around drying off. It is an extremely important time of the year, it’s down time for the cow so that she could recover herself after a long lactation and it is a time where cell count can be improved […]
5 November 2022
Regulatory Changes to Dry Cow Therapy in 2022
0 Regulatory Changes to Dry Cow Therapy in 2022 Caroline Garvan, Superintending Veterinary Inspector in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) gives an overview of the regulatory changes, the changes in the legislation that relates specifically to dry cow therapy. It is very important that you are aware of these […]
4 November 2022
Teagasc National Dairy Conference heads to Cork and Mullingar
0 Teagasc National Dairy Conference heads to Cork and Mullingar The Teagasc 2022 National Dairy Conferences will take place on Tuesday, 6th December at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork and on Thursday, 8th December at the Mullingar Park Hotel, Mullingar. The theme of the Conferences is ‘Turning challenges into opportunities’ Speaking at the […]
3 November 2022
Practical Demonstrations on How to Dry Off Cows
0 Practical Demonstrations on How to Dry Off Cows Don Crowley, Teagasc and member of the Animal Health Ireland (AHI) Cell Check technical working group outlines the steps that you need to take to prepare yourself for drying off cows. Don discusses the various factors that you have to take into consideration when […]
3 November 2022
Calf and calving facilities farm survey
Calf and calving facilities farm survey As the workload on most Irish dairy farms reduces it’s important to take time now to plan for calving next spring. The best starting point is to take an audit of your current facilities to quantify if you have enough space for rearing calves and calving […]
24 October 2022
Indoor management of weanling replacement heifers
Indoor management of weanling replacement heifers Housing time is a great time to separate the lighter heifers for preferential treatment over the winter. This is important to ensure that they reach the target weight required for successful rearing. George Ramsbottom, Teagasc Dairy Specialist, gives us more detail. Their target live weight depends […]
10 October 2022
Improving accuracy in breeding
0 Improving accuracy in breeding Information derived from analyses of livestock DNA has proven to be more accurate than traditional pedigree information, providing benefits to breeding. Over the past couple of decades, livestock breeding programmes have improved the performance of various production systems. The basis of such breeding programmes is the estimation of […]
5 October 2022
Body Condition Score in Late Lactation
0 Body Condition Score in Late Lactation Getting cows to the correct body condition score (BCS) at calving is one of the most important tasks for dairy farmers. Trouble-free calving, good conception rates, reduced culling and better milk solids production are all linked to this simple measure. Therefore correcting body condition score through […]
3 October 2022
Meet the Farmer – John O’Donoghue
0 Meet the Farmer – John O’Donoghue John and Annette are farming beside the Bandon River in Ballinadee with their family Paddy, Ciara, Aine and Jack. They are milking 165 cows this year, of which 32 (19%) are heifers, after gradually increasing from 135 in 2020. They are farming 71ha in total including […]
1 October 2022
How to Make Contract Rearing a Success
How to Make Contract Rearing a Success Teagasc Drystock advisor in Moorepark, Michael Bourke, joins Stuart Childs on this week’s Dairy Edge podcast to discuss how he views contract rearing from a drystock and dairy farmer’s point of view. Michael has nearly 15 years’ experience in setting up contract rearing arrangements. Michael […]
26 September 2022