Armagh farmer, Kyle McCall, enjoyed a career highlight this week, when one of his Charolais cows gave birth to triplets ...

A dairy farmer managing a chronic bovine TB breakdown has eliminated a major disease threat to his herd by no longer buying ...

With multiple employees on farm who speak different dialects of Spanish, the Helt family has learned how to communicate with ...

First-round grass is typically lower in energy and protein, and farmers are reporting that even if they go to grass for a few ...

When researchers looked at the production records of calves in commercial operations, they found that, on average, calves ...

Kevin Moran farms 105ha with 260 cows in a spring calving grass-based system in Co. Galway, with calves contract reared from 13 weeks old.

Much of this advice is also relevant to calving pens in beef and dairy herds. If joint-ill and navel-ill has been a problem in your herd/flock, it is well worth doing a thorough risk assessment of ...

We shipped two loads of fat cattle this past week and will ship another this week. Two of these loads were sold cash, and for ...

The transition period receives the attention of the entire dairy industry because of the dramatic and intense changes that cows undergo.

Pens must be adequately ventilated ... up to 24" per heifer up to a month before calving,” McGuirk says. Also, provide 12" of linear water space per 10 animals and clean waterers daily. Feed ...