The milk production system promoted in Ireland must be revisited
In current conditions, getting cows out too early is damaging fields significantly, warns ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy.
Forgive me for checking, but isn’t it cows that produce the milk that dairy farmers sell to their processors? One would think from looking at social media and some press that it was grass that performed all of the magic.
So, why are milk yields way back this spring? It is simply because the cows producing it have not been supplied with sufficient energy. Milk production is a process of converting energy from the feed consumed by the cow into milk. If she doesn’t consume the energy, then she won’t produce the milk.
