fertility

Agritech startup Smartbell is raising funds to help the company grow and develop further products which improve animal health and productivity. This is an opportunity for anyone to invest, with options to own a share of the company starting from £10. For details, click here. Smartbell has...

As part of my final year project. I am researching “understanding the performance of cows in a milking herd based on EBI”. I would appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes of your time to fill out an online survey. Please find attached the link below...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...

Ballygowan Texas – Entered for the British Blonde Society Sale at Dungannon Farmers Mart on Friday 22nd March - Online bidding via LSL - sale from noon. Texas is an 18-month-old son of Baltra Iceman and from a very milky home bread dam out of a Landais sired cow. Texas hit the ground running as...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Dairy farmers in Northern Ireland are confirming high conception rates in cows and heifers that are due to calve later in the autumn. This is despite issues relating to silage quality on many farms. Semex sales manager for Northern Ireland, John Berry...

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Heard this said plenty of times, but really if you have a small farm turning over a relatively small amount say £1-200k you are only ever going to be able to make so much money no matter how efficient you are or how well you sell your produce. The only way to increase profits is to increase...

I've been offered a smallish quantity of brewers Grains from a local brewer. Somewhere between 1 and 1.5t per week. I'd like to feed them to our jerseys. Is there a maximum rate they should be feed at and is it possible to clamp them through the summer? Or would I be better feeding them to...

Whats everyone elses position. The wheats looking really hungry now and its so wet wondering whether just go and make a mess or be patient?! Must be loosing yield surely.

A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley) A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley). Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?

Just a thought Straw shortages for the livestock industry Less cereals for feed Less acreages for the spraying contractors Less agronomy and chemicals Les’s fertiliser sales And so on Hearing big acreages of SFI

Chatting with my agronomist this morning and he was telling me how some FBT agreements, down in more arable areas, had clauses in them requiring the land to be soil tested at the beginning and end of the term with a full spectrum analysis, with a charge to put right any degradation. I've heard...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland Harvesting high quality silage is vital for farms that will be milking cows in the shed next winter, and now is the time to place a focus on this. The quality of silage or forage can have a significant impact on the cost of production during the housed...

As the title suggest considering going down this route with the cattle. Mega simple system, no breeding stock, one stock class. 12 month old bought in 400kgish animals, groups of 40 grazed from March to November on good free draining ground. Fresh cell every day, grazing herbal lays, no corn...

Perception and perspective are very different things. Generally individuals and old farmers see food security as an existential threat eg if we had a major war (see WW2) and we struggle to have enough food in the UK. Retailers and governments see food security along the lines of “are the supply...

Written by Brian McDonnell from Agriland Lameness is often an issue that is overlooked during the calving period, and affected calves can go undetected for quite some time – particularly in larger herds. Although it can be difficult to keep on top of everything during this busy time, a focus...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland 10 pedigree, in-calf Speckle Park cows as well as two running with the bull averaged £2,629 at a recent sale held at Ballymena Mart. All the animals were consigned by north Antrim breeder, Richard Creith. The sale topped £3,465, paid for a top quality...

I’m next door to a rewetting project that’s a combined effort or “non effort” between the Forestry Commission, Natural England and the Wolds Chalk Stream project or something like that. And I’m fairly angry about it as fetid stinking water is sometimes pouring across their plantations onto the...

Welcome to Ruminant Health & Welfare Welcome to the first RH&W newsletter of 2024 Our important work continues with our focus now on developing a beef welfare strategy with the working group as well as progressing the welfare goals identified in the dairy and sheep strategies through 2024. As...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland The importance of red clover in silage swards has been highlighted by AgriSearch general manager, Jason Rankin. “Grassland farmers are under pressure to reduce fertiliser costs, while still maintaining optimal levels of output from forage,” he said...