Chloe Millar from the Tipperary Dairy Calf to Beef Demonstration Farm is on this week’s Beef Edge podcast, providing an update on calf rearing this spring and management on the farm currently.
Coming from seven different herds, 381 calves – after specific sires and with high Dairy Beef Indexes – were sourced on the farm this spring.
Chloe talks through the process from once the calf arrives on the farm up to weaning. They were on average 80 days of age and 93kg at weaning. Chloe also outlines the key targets for these calves over their lifetime and how the cattle finished last year.
Performance at grass is very important to every beef system and Chloe outlines the management at grass currently and the reseeding that was carried out this year.
Listen to the full episode of the Beef Edge podcast below: