It is no surprise that many year-round calvers with higher-yielding cows find grazing stressful. Allocating grass is ...

In the 1930s and early 1940s, farmers overgrazed their cattle on rangelands and depleted land resources due to a lack of ...

Variable weather with changing air temperatures is likely to be causing increased dairy cow health issues, writes Aidan ...

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

Suckler cow numbers in Ireland have fallen by 270,000 head while the number of dairy cows increased by 316,000 head.

Efficiency is driving the move into intensive dairying with up to 10 per cent of the nation’s herd now housed in an ...

Cows are yielding 10,974 litres at 4.05 ... Hefin suggests higher-yielding dairy producers approach grazing differently to those operating systems whose primary focus is milk from grass.