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23 hours ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
Lameness poses serious threat to cow’s health and welfare and, as we move into May, roadways and surfaces need to be maintained to ensure that cow’s heat activity is not limited by the condition. In order to achieve the best expression of heat and the best conception rates, we need to do everything we can to to make sure that cows are in good condition and that their feed requirements are met.
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1 day ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
There was heavy rainfall in most parts of the country over the weekend, though it has not affected grazing conditions and will hopefully improve grass growth on farms. Grass growth has been slow on most farms this spring but has picked up in recent weeks, with grass growing at a rate of 35-50kg dry matter (DM)/ha/day last week, according to PastureBase Ireland.
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1 day ago | 
agriland.co.uk | Hugh Harney
There was heavy rainfall in most parts of the country over the weekend, though it has not affected grazing conditions and will hopefully improve grass growth on farms. Grass growth has been slow on most farms this spring but has picked up in recent weeks, with grass growing at a rate of 45-55kg dry matter (DM)/ha/day last week, according to PastureBase Ireland.
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2 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
While the weather has been poor over the past few days, with plenty of rainfall across the country, reseeding paddocks this spring is very much so still on the cards. At a recent Teagasc reseeding event on Liam Delaney’s farm in Co. Laois, the pros and cons of each reseeding method was highlighted along with the importance of clover inclusion in your grazing seed mix.
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3 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
A target for most spring calving herds across the country is to achieve a submission rate over the first three weeks of 90% while limiting the number of missed heats in the herd. For a herd with 100 cows, this means that 90 cows will be served in the first three weeks of the breeding season.
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3 days ago | 
agriland.co.uk | Hugh Harney
A target for most spring calving herds across the country is to achieve a submission rate over the first three weeks of 90% while limiting the number of missed heats in the herd. For a herd with 100 cows, this means that 90 cows will be served in the first three weeks of the breeding season.
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3 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
As the breeding season edges closer, it is no harm to understand the impact of milk urea levels on the fertility of your herd and the impact it may have on pregnancy rates. To get a better understanding of how milk urea can affect the fertility of the herd, it is important to grasp what exactly milk urea is. Milk urea indicates the crude protein (CP) in a cow’s diet and is formed from the metabolism of amino acids and body protein, sometimes described as a by-product of dietary protein.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
Heavy rainfall this weekend has broken up the good weather but, in general, the ground conditions have been favourable for reseeding, which has allowed a lot of farmers to get cracking on reseeding underperforming paddocks. At a Teagasc reseeding event on Thursday, April 17, the importance of reseeding was highlighted, which included extra grass grown and grown better in harder times, a better response to fertiliser, and allowing for clover establishment.
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4 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
There are a number of scheme application dates fast approaching as we enter into the final few weeks of April and, with the busyness of farms at this time of the year, these dates can often slip the farmer’s mind. Dairy farmers are just wrapping up the end of the calving season, with a couple of stragglers around still to calve, after which it will be straight into the breeding season, silage-making, and the main grazing season.
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5 days ago | 
agriland.ie | Hugh Harney
With breeding season almost upon us, it is essential for farmers to pick out the problem cows in the herd and the cows that they plan on breeding their replacements off. Heat detection in April is crucial and farmers should continue their pre-breeding heat detection right up until the start of the breeding season.
