Beef finishers profit from enhanced grass quality and feed efficiency

Enhanced grass quality and feed efficiency will increase profit levels for beef finishers, some 400 beef farmers heard at a Teagasc open day yesterday.

Adam Woods, Better Beef programme manager, said: “While confidence is low in the beef finishing sector at the moment, beef finishers must not take their eye off increasing efficiency within the farm gate to improve profitability. Billy [Glasheen] has demonstrated how a store-to-beef finishing system can deliver a healthy margin where costs are kept to a minimum by concentrating on grazed grass to maximise output.”

The open day on the farm of Mr Glasheen, a beef finisher outside Mullinahone, Co Tipperary, is one in a series of 10 open days taking place on farms participating in the Teagasc/ Irish Farmers Journal Better Farm Beef Programme.