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Beef Management: breeding indoors and looking after first calving heifers
Adam Woods
This week's Beef Management takes a look at breeding indoors, sexed semen use, injection site management and looking after first calving heifers.
Beef Management: breeding indoors and looking after first calving heifers
Utilising bedding wisely this winter
4 December 2024 Buildings
Utilising bedding wisely this winter
With straw an expensive commodity for livestock farmers, efficient use of it is necessary to keep costs down.
Keep drinking water clean for housed cattle
3 December 2024 Management
Keep drinking water clean for housed cattle
Providing clean drinking water is a key part of winter management in housed cattle, but it is a task that is often overlooked.
10 tips for grazing cattle on forage crops over winter
Outwintering cattle on forage crops will be limited to farms on drier land. But where animals have access to such crops, outlined are some tips for grazing.
30 November 2024 Management
Tullamore Farm: bulls set sail for Italy and students fly in from Kansas
Shaun Diver has the latest update from the Irish Farmers Journal beef and sheep demonstration farm in Tullamore.
29 November 2024 Management
Beef Management: ration formulation and final suckler event
This week, Adam Woods takes a look at ration formulation and previews the final event in our Irish Farmers Journal suckler series.
27 November 2024 Management
Clipping cattle following housing
With cattle now housed for winter, clipping animals can provide multiple benefits.
26 November 2024 Management
Five tips for managing creep pens
Providing calves that are suckling cows with a clean, dry bedded creep area is good practice during the housing period.
23 November 2024 Management
Tullamore Farm: grazing comes to a close as cull cows start to move
Shaun Diver has the latest update from Tullamore Farm, including this week's TB test, cull cow carcase weights and feeding wholecrop silage.
22 November 2024 Management
Bluetongue outbreak implications laid bare
Adam Woods reports from the Teagasc beef conference which took place in Carrick-on-Shannon this week.
20 November 2024 Management
Switching to Stabiliser cows at Lisgoole Abbey
Since taking over as farm manager at Lisgoole Abbey, Connor Donaldson has been put his stamp on the 100 cow suckler herd.
20 November 2024 Northern Ireland
Beef Management: autumn bulls, frost tips and last date for suckler roadshow
This week beef editor Adam Woods takes a look at autumn bull management, feeding weanlings, dealing with frost on beef farms and previews next week's IFJ suckler mart event in Kerry.
20 November 2024 Management