For a cow to feed a calf and retain its own body condition requires a good solid intake of essential nutrients. First-calf heifers also need more of the same nutrients to gain a couple of hundred ...

Aidan Brennan takes a look at tight grass supplies on dairy farms and asks what farmers who have a high proportion of the ...

The light rain will also be welcomed as it doesn’t look like it will upset grazing conditions, and moisture in the soil is ...

Irrigated pasture production of 20 tonnes dry matter per hectare is possible under real farm conditions even with less ...

If beef farmers are assisting a high proportion of cows at calving, or if stillbirth rate is higher than wanted, then cow ...

Despite some exceptionally cold temperatures this winter, Jared Luhman, a cow-calf producer at Dry Creek Farms in Goodhue ... that includes bale grazing with grass and corn stalks; grazing ...

With cattle prices at historically high levels, livestock farmers will be extremely keen to maximise the growth achieved by ...