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The standards are exceptionally high and turning out champions is often the result of a dream, a desire, a plan and painstaking dedication. Producing and showing cattle successfully, is an art as well as a science. Show-ring champions tend to be the result of careful planning, well-planned breeding, well-managed feeding, good health/disease prevention, intensive training, […]
The main objective in calf rearing is to develop the rumen, so that the animal is capable of being an efficient converter of forage into growth and productivity. It is therefore important to re-evaluate how calves are managed from pre-weaning until the end of the initial 8-12 weeks of grazing. High-quality lush grass may not […]
Shane Quirke is the farm manager on John Furey’s farm in Edenderry, Co Offaly. “We have been in dairying for the past four years. We are currently milking 300 British Freisian cows. In year one, we started off with 100 heifers and gradually built up the herd. We have a grazing platform of 300 acres […]
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