Setting up your indoor beef finishing plan

Beef finishers should always aim to keep production costs under control to optimise profits, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy.

Beef finishers should always aim to keep production costs under control to optimise profits, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy.

Over the last week, I have been visiting some of my beef finishing customers to start constructing diets for the coming months. Due to concerns over having sufficient supplies of grass silage, the conversations have regularly moved towards discussing alternative feeds and bye products to fill the gap and achieve animal performance.

Beef finishers should always aim to keep production costs under control to optimise profits. How this is achieved is multifactorial.