Planning for Spring 2025
Many herds are currently engaged in drying off cows, as the focus shifts towards dry cow management across most farms. It’s also important to...
Informed decisions on silage quality will benefit feed plan
After a fantastic back end to the grazing season, the focus of farmers has increasingly turned towards nutrition levels from winter forage....
Smart Choices – Choosing a Quality Calf Milk Replacer
The management of calves in the first weeks of life has a significant impact on their lifetime production, and with replacement heifers, impact...
The Autumn Checklist
For spring calving herds, the end of the lactation is approaching so some important decisions need to be made to hopefully ensure a stress-free...
Prevention of Metabolic Issues
Prevention of metabolic issues next spring will hinge around management decisions that will be made over the next number of weeks. When costs...
Time to plan for Winter
Another winter is approaching, and now is the time for planning, in order to make informed decisions around nutritional management. Following a...
Preparation is Everything
Although it seems almost too early to admit, and it doesn’t appear to have been that long since ‘winter mode’ ended, but Winter 2024 is approaching,...
Autumn reseeds: don’t delay!
Early autumn reseeding is the preferred option for many to reseed grazing ground due to reduced pressure on grass availability and the increased...
Getting back on track with reseeding
Slow growth has been the theme so far this year with many reseeding plans on the main grazing block have either been placed on hold or delayed....
Time to Stock Take
In recent weeks, slow growth has been the common factor noted across the regions, with much of the focus devoted to balancing grass availability and...
Weighing up stocks
It’s vitally important that the next generation of milking cows don’t fall between two stools in the quieter part of the year. Now that breeding...
Maintaining calf performance at grass
Pre-weaning the overall aim was to have doubled our calves birth weight at the point of weaning, and to be ~100 kg at 11-12 weeks before being...