LATEST ARTICLES
Beef
Beef Management: autumn bulls, frost tips and last date for suckler roadshow
Adam Woods
This week beef editor Adam Woods takes a look at autumn bull management, feeding weanlings, dealing with frost on beef farms and previews next week's IFJ suckler mart event in Kerry.
6 November 2024 Neven
Neven Maguire: cook low and slow
Some delicious and comforting meal ideas from the slow cooker, to warm up autumn evenings, writes Neven Maguire.
6 November 2024 Northern Ireland
Price freeze on rations for November
There has been no change to price quotes on livestock rations at feed mills in NI.
Editorial: is the suckler game back in focus?
Cow price is one thing, but weanling price is an even better gauge of where the suckler game is.
30 October 2024 Viewpoints
Beef Management: front loading meal to stores in winter
Front loading meal to weanlings and store cattle is a good way to keep animals on track to hit target weights after housing.
22 October 2024 Management
All not equal in love and protein
Martin Merrick looks at what sources of protein farmers need to be looking for in their feed rations, with all proteins not being equal in quality.
9 October 2024 Winter Indoor Management
Neven Maguire: rice up your life
These rice-based recipes make the most of seasonal autumn vegetables and are hearty enough to make a filling meal on their own, writes Neven Maguire.
9 October 2024 Neven
Schemes update: 23,720 applications to National Beef Welfare Scheme
Scheme more popular in 2024 with over 7,000 more suckler farmers applying by the deadline of 24 September.
7 October 2024 News
Lisavaird unveils new €5.5m feed mill
The move is part of a wider rebrand of the co-op as it readies for its centenary year in 2025.
11 September 2024 News
Five management tasks for autumn-calving herds
As autumn calving activity steps up on suckler farms, outlined are some tasks to keep on top of during September.
31 August 2024 Management
Ration prices unchanged for September
Livestock rations in Northern Ireland will no changes on price quotes going into September.
28 August 2024 Northern Ireland
Beef Management: weather, buying weanlings and empty cows
Martin Merrick advises on how to cope with the wetter weather in the northwest, protocols on purchasing weanlings and what are the options with empty cows.
21 August 2024 Management