Teagasc advice: €1,170/ha suckler margin target

More than 2,000 farmers attended the inaugural open day at the Newford Suckler Demonstration Farm in Athenry, Co Galway, and they learned that cow type drives performance on the farm.

Cow Type

The mainly first-cross Aberdeen Angus cows, bred from the dairy herd, with a small percentage of Hereford cross Friesian cows have strong maternal traits, and are efficient converters of grass to milk, resulting in good daily live weight gains in the calf crop.