FutureBeef Webinar: Profit Starts Before Calving – Reduce Calf Losses Before They Happen

Strong calf performance and farm profitability start well before calving. Getting nutrition, minerals, vaccination and calving management right has a major impact on calf survival, cow health and labour efficiency on suckler beef farms.

Teagasc Future Beef team are hosting a two part webinar series ‘A Guide to a Successful Calving Season’ designed specifically for suckler beef farmers, combining the latest research with practical on-farm experience to help reduce calf losses and improve performance in the coming calving season.

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Join us online on Tuesday, 6^th January at 8pm for the first webinar in the series which focuses on Profit Starts Before Calving – Reduce Calf Losses Before They Happen.

What will be discussed?

This webinar will focus on the key management decisions during pregnancy that influence calving difficulty, calf vitality and early-life disease risk.

Topics include:

• Nutrition of the pregnant suckler cow – matching energy and protein supply to stage of pregnancy
• Minerals – how important are they? Identifying deficiencies, choosing the right supplementation and timing
• Vaccination programmes for suckler herds – controlling scour and pneumonia:
  • Which animals to vaccinate
  • Which vaccines are appropriate
  • When vaccines should be administered to protect the newborn calf

Speakers

• Professor David Kenny, Teagasc
• MSD Animal Health
• James Skehan, Future Beef Farmer

Find out more about the FutureBeef Programme here