N.Ireland
The year is almost behind us, and before the spring calving season gets underway, farmers should develop a herd health...
Dairy
As the Christmas period continues on, it is important to be critiquing your dry cow management and ensuring cows are...
Agriland visited the cellars of the Fort Saint-Antoine, Fromageries Marcel Petite where 100,000 wheels of Comté cheese are stored and...
As the Christmas period begins, Agriland has decided to revisit some of the most popular and interesting Dairy Focus articles from 2024,...
We are nearing the end of December, meaning it won’t be long until the calving season kicks off all over...
There is no doubt that 2024 proved to be a challenging year for farmers, and so farmers should be analysing...
Familiarising heifers with the milking facilities and getting them parlour trained is the final piece of the puzzle for getting...
Calving down and heifer mastitis, or in some scenarios, having a blind quarter, can be a massive issue on farms....
The 38th edition of the Black & White sale held at the Borderway Sale Centre attracted a massive crowd of dairy...
For many spring calving herds, the majority of the herd has been dried off by now. It is important that...
As we are now in the month of December, many cows around the country are dried off at this point...
This week’s Dairy Focus takes us to another farm in France where the farmer focuses on achieving a high protein...
Many farmers have started to dry off their first calvers and their thin cows, and perhaps they should body condition...
Now that virtually every silage pit is open and silage is the main source of forage in the cow’s diet,...
Now that the majority of the autumn calving cows have now calved down, it is time to ensure that they...
Controlling your somatic cell count (SCC) is not always easy during the early lactation of your winter milking herds, particularly...
Agriland visited the headquarters of Coopex Montbeliarde in Besançon, eastern France where some of the finest bulls in the stud...
It is a well-known fact that the first 100 days for dairy heifers sets the precedent for the rest of...
