Signpost: Taking a few minutes to sort through the cows as the herd enters peak milk

Farmer Peadar O'Driscoll in the milking parlour on the farm in West Cork.

As calving is basically finished, with one cow left to calve, my attention has turned to the coming breeding season.

I have gone through all the herd and I have selected cows for culling, cows that will get beef AI only, and a third group of those suitable for breeding my replacement heifers from.