Scheme benefits the environment, business and public services
A West Suffolk business is to reduce its impact on climate change and save thousands [...]
Forest and woodland biosecurity drives site-to-site sanitation
Renewed focus on biosecurity in Ireland’s 700,000 hectares of woodland [ref] places significant plant hygiene [...]
Borrowed trick boosts lambing ease for ewe and cattle alike
For much less assistance with lambing and fewer dead or orphan lambs, at less than [...]
Beware iodine over-supply to pregnant ewes or cows
Livestock farmers are being advised that it’s possible to over-supplement pregnant ewes and cows with [...]
Lambs need cobalt for fast finish, not B-vitamin ‘go faster stripes’
Sheep farmers are advised to be wary of misleading ‘go faster stripes’ on supplements for [...]
Increase lambs sold per ewe next year by investing now in flock fertility
€4k bounty for +0.2 lambs sold per ewe higher productivity in 200-ewe flock Recent experience [...]
Coping with lamb price rollercoaster by investing in flock fertility
Significant financial bounty from raising ewe productivity The way you sheep farmers cope with the [...]
Avoid turn-out trace element gap in ewes to ‘make hay while sun shines’ on lamb values
Turn-out from the lambing shed can put ewes at risk of a performance limiting Trace [...]
Northern Ireland avoid trace element gap in ewes to stay one step ahead
After lambing, ewes can be at risk of a performance limiting Trace Element Gap due [...]
Ireland avoid turn-out trace element gap in ewes to stay one step ahead
Ewes can be at risk of a performance limiting Trace Element Gap due to change [...]