Today’s Farm – Jan/Feb 2017

Healthy calves: The future of your herd.

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Articles

Dairying

• Early Grazing: it’s not just for spring calvers (pdf) – Joe Patton
• How much poaching is acceptable? Moisture probe takes out the guesswork (pdf) – James Humphries and Dan Barrett
• Grazing coaches building grass management skills (pdf) – Kay O’Connell
• Calf health and management: the essentials (pdf) – Catherine Colfer
• High-tech international milk research links – The Teagasc Milking Machine maintenance & Research Programme (pdf) – John Upton 
• Maintenance tips for milking machines (pdf) – Tom Ryan
• Carlow farm makes rapid progress – new entrant driving milk solids per hectare on a mixed owned/leased farm in Carlow (pdf) – Eamonn Grace and Richard O’Brien

Drystock

• KT Beef Farm Improvement Plans – what you need to know (pdf) – James Keane
• Vaccinating your flock against clostridia and pasteurella (pdf) – Ciaran Lynch
• What makes a perfect steak? (pdf) – Lauren Van Rooyen, Lara Moran, Gonzalo Delgado-Pando

Equine

• Equine winter care (pdf) – Wendy Conlon

Farm Management

• Why data is plentiful and information is scarce (pdf) – Kevin Connolly

Tillage

• Benefits of liming? Ask our ancestors (pdf) – Paul Fox
• Bounteous benefits from growing beans (pdf) – John Carroll

Botanic Gardens

• The beauty of beech (pdf)- Paddy Smith

Environment

• Picking apples and choosing trees (pdf) – Catherine Keena

Forestry

• Trees get the personal touch (pdf) – Michael Somers