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Irish Farmers Journal suckler roadshow comes to Clare
Adam Woods
Adam Woods reports from the first three suckler roadshows to take place around the country and previews the last two in Clare and Kerry.
30 October 2024 Management
Lungworm issues and suckler mart roadshow dates
Adam Woods takes a look at a rise in lungworm cases and how to deal with them and has the dates for this weeks and next weeks suckler marts roadshow.
23 October 2024 Animal Health
Addressing parasite burdens in youngstock
With a challenging summer, parasite burdens must be kept to a minimum as stock begin to head indoors to prevent a serious falloff in liveweight gain. Martin Merrick reports.
Beef Management: buying weanlings, dehorning and Bluetongue threat
Adam Woods takes a look at buying in weanlings, dehorning autumn born calves, lungworm issues and looking out for Bluetongue.
2 October 2024 Management
Beef Management : Slurry dates, autumn calving and reseed management
In this week's Beef Management we take a look at slurry spreading, dosing weanlings, managing reseeds and autumn calving cows.
4 September 2024 Management
Preventing pneumonia at weaning time
Adam Woods looks at measures to prevent health problems when weaning suckler calves.
28 August 2024 Breeding & health
Five cattle management tasks for late August
Outlined are five management tasks to carry out on suckler farms going into late August.
17 August 2024 Management
Be alert for lungworm in young cattle
Warmer temperatures will see worm burdens rapidly increasing on grazing swards, putting young cattle at higher risk of respiratory problems caused by lungworm.
16 July 2024 Management
Five tips for worm control in cattle
Worming cattle will be a common management task carried out on livestock farms in the coming weeks. Outlined are five tips to keep in mind.
1 June 2024 Management