Paula Hynes: YMA — much more than just showing calves

We might be a few weeks away from silage season here, however, breeding season is progressing well and we are seeing plenty of heats every day.

The Cork YMA workshop held recently on the Hynes farm.

The weather just doesn’t seem to want to settle this year, and grazing conditions continue to be tricky, which is far from ideal as cows hit peak milk production. 

It is hard to believe we are into the second week of May, contractors and tillage farmers are still busy trying to get maize and crops sown, and Cork seems to be the worst affected by rain, as further up the country, many farmers have been cutting silage, and I know of a good few farmers in Northern Ireland who have already completed first-cut silage.