ABP Food Group farm liaison officer Sean Cassidy recently visited an under-16-month bull beef system on a suckler farm based ...

Forward creep-grazing with creep gates or electric wires is a simple technique suckler systems could try this year to help performance. With feed costs becoming eye-watering, the benefits of the ...

Suckler performance targets and grazing for dairy beef were among the topics discussed at the British Cattle Breeders conference beef day. Superstars are not wanted in Jamie Leslie’s 90-cow Angus ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of genetic merit of the national Irish maternal index and genotype (i.e. beef vs. beef × dairy [BDX]) of beef cows and subsequent performance ...

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SWAPPING red and white Ayrshire cattle for red, white and roan Beef Shorthorn has brought a new and successful dynamic to David and Rosemary Dickie's livestock enterprise. "We are helping to breed a ...

Creep feeding in the suckler herd should ideally commence when calves require additional energy to maintain target weight gains beyond the energy consumed from milk and grass Growing top-quality grass ...

A cow in the dry period is like an athlete in pre-season, and you must prepare the system for the season ahead, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy. A cow in the dry period is like an athlete in ...

A new €50/cow support measure for the suckler sector, the National Beef Welfare Scheme (NBWS) was been opened to applications. The scheme will support farmers in meal feeding suckler calves in advance ...

‘Immediate action needed or suckler sector will wither away,’ government is warned Teagasc has forecast that suckler cows are likely to decline to just over 600k head by 2030. Stock Image Ireland’s ...

That was the message delivered by award-winning Shetland beef farmer Jamie Leslie and Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society CEO Robert Gilchrist at the British Cattle Breeders Conference in Telford. Mr Leslie ...