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Tullamore Farm update: cattle coming in and rams going out
Contributor
Shaun Diver gives an update on what has been happening on Tullamore Farm this week.
25 September 2024 News
Record number of deer culled in 2023
The number of deer culled in 2023 is up 41% from the previous record set in 2022.
18 September 2024 News
Farmers advised to cull cows milking less than 13l
Slurry storage also needs to be taken into account for farmers considering holding onto cull cows.
Mastitis costs farms over €100m per year – Shalloo
Forty per cent of the costs associated with mastitis are due to reduced milk yield, Laurence Shalloo told an Animal Health Ireland conference in Kilkenny on Wednesday.
11 September 2024 News
Farmer Writes: the trials of dairy farming
The desktop management from Westminster still continues to alarm me, writes Joe Collingborn.
8 September 2024 Farmer Writes
Owens: evidence and science must be used to stop TB
It comes after the BBC last week broadcast the documentary ‘Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me’, which discussed the transmitting of bovine tuberculosis in the UK.
28 August 2024 News
BBC’s badger show courts controversy
The Dealer has come across a new documentary set to air on the BBC this week led by Queen guitarist Brian May on badger culling.
21 August 2024 Dealer
Legal challenge to English badger cull
Another legal challenge has been launched in England against badger culling
14 August 2024 Northern Ireland
A bit less sexed semen might do
Sexed semen has delivered significant efficiency improvements, but it also comes with some challenges.
31 July 2024 Northern Ireland