Technology for calf rearing which has been tried and tested at Teagasc Grange is described in the current edition of the Teagasc Today’s Farm magazine, by Pearse Kelly, David Kenny, and Bernadette Earley, of the animal and grassland research staff at Grange.

Silage quality is key to good animal performance, reducing winter feed costs, and increasing profitability during the housing period.

Cereals can be replaced with maize dried distillers grains, soya hulls, and palm kernel meal in the diet of grazing dairy cows without adverse effect, according to UCD and Teagasc researchers.

Milk herds