To farmers who are unfamiliar with winter grazing fodder crops, kale and fodder beet can appear to provide very similar feeds. In fact, there are many points of difference, from yield and cattle ...

Ned Morrissey farms 370 ewes on his 30-hectare farm at Dunhill, Co Waterford. At roughly 13 ewes/ha, it's an intensive farming system by any standards. What is intriguing about his system is that he ...

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Fodder beet is an increasingly popular winter crop for beef and dairy cattle due to the large amounts of dry matter it produces, but you and your stock won’t get the best out of the crop if its ...

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The huge increase in the cost of concentrates and fertilisers should prompt us to consider carefully the cost relationships between the various feed options we have, going from grazed grass, grass ...

In a first of its kind initiative, the Animal Husbandry department, along with the district administration, has identified a 24.46 acre grazing land at Poonchuthi village near Tiruvadavur for growing ...