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THIS IS NOT A JOB ADVERT, ADVICE NEEDED! My brother is set to retire this year so I'm starting to look at taking someone on full-time (50hrs a week). Ideally whom is experienced and competent, for a general mixture of dairy farm work; Alone milking, tractor driving, calf rearing etc. No...

We have been checking through tags on store cattle and found that we have a passport for a beast that isnt on farm and we have a beast on the farm that we dont have a passport for, both the beast and the passport are born just a few calves apart and from the same farm, i can only presume that...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland The importance of milk recording is not lost on many dairy farms, but there are still a large number of farms where it is not regularly completed. Although farms that are not completing a milk recording will have a reason for not doing so, the amount...

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Holstein UK has announced the judges for the 2024 All Breeds All Britain (ABAB) Calf Show but stated that it does not have a confirmed venue for the event yet. Steve McLoughlin will take to the centre of the ring to judge the National Holstein...

I realise this is a bit of a open question because everyone seems to like different powders but I just wondered what other people get on with. The powder I've been feeding is an.. 18% protein 22% oil 35% skim I've reared plenty of healthy strong calves on this powder but it's comparatively...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland Taaffe auctions conducted the dispersal sale of the Willofarm herd for the Throne family, in Dungannon Mart on Thursday January 25. The sale included the entire milking herd and all of the youngstock from the farm, with a total of 101 lots on offer...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland With calving due to get underway on dairy farms in the coming days, one thing that should be put in place is a herd health plan. A herd health plan should be developed with the help of your vet, and although one may already be in place, it is always a...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland John Egerton, from Roslea in Co. Fermanagh, is the new president of the Ulster Grassland Society (UGS). He will serve a one-year term. He took up his new role, succeeding Colin Linton, at the recent 2024 UGS conference. John farms with three sons...

Written by Colm Ryan from Agriland A collaboration between an Irish auctioneer and one of the UK’s largest livestock auctioneers has recently taken place. Livestock auctioneers, Harrison & Hetherington (H&H) announced their collaboration with Co. Cork-based Denis Barrett, of Denis Barrett...

Anyone else feel insulted by Bagshaws auctioneer in Bakewell when selling your livestock, the one that is meant to be the senior partner makes various comments about eith store cattle or store lambs when selling, heard him say once they only had hay and that seems to have blown away

Suffering from really painful shin bones at night, sometimes one, sometimes both, can go a couple of weeks with nothing. Stops me sleeping sometimes. I don't do any running, excessive walking/jumping on hard surfaces which seem to be the main causes of shin splints which would seem the most...

Farmers worldwide are being squeezed between monopoly suppliers and monopoly buyers. With farmers fragmented, they have to be "price takers". With worldwide governments content to allow food producers to "go hang", food shortages are becoming ever more commonplace. Be it wheat in Africa, rice in...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland While the outlook for beef is set to remain strong, buyers of dropped calves remain very discerning in their choice. Ai Services breeding specialist, Ivan Minford, told Agriland: “Only calves with real shape and substance to them are commanding a...

Hi I am currently scratching my head on best way of feeding a shed of 70 cattle, ideally I would like a free standing ad lib feeder, but they are costly and I am unsure on how big it would need to be. If anyone has any idea on maybe how many ft of feed space to how many cows that would be...

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THIS IS NOT A JOB ADVERT, ADVICE NEEDED! My brother is set to retire this year so I'm starting to look at taking someone on full-time (50hrs a week). Ideally whom is experienced and competent, for a general mixture of dairy farm work; Alone milking, tractor driving, calf rearing etc. No...

Having done a bit of rotational grazing, I'm going to try a further intensification of grazing for my cattle, ideally once mob on daily moves. Fencing isn't too much of a problem, I have plenty of reels, polywire and posts. Water is the stumbling block. The water infrastructure here isn't...

This is the number someone has come up with for the Welsh government for losses down to the new agriculture policy. Great news. Not.

Well what do others think? It seems to me, while our govt, makes "our " farmers, jump through all the hoops, ( rules, regulations etc etc), right? Meat from wherever? floods into the UK? Why i say this, just phoned my vet, to get some alymycin, for treating some foul of the foots, and been told...

opinions appreciated please, we lost 7 reactors on friday all clear of lesions and no culture required after yesterdays pm. we have only 10 cows to calve before end of feb and then approx 18-25 a month going forward all ic to blue and good calves. not really set up for rearing calves as all sold...