Tag: Holstein Friesian

Will beef-bred calves purchased this year leave a margin?

Farming 300ac, milking 85 cows and offering zero-grazing services

Farming 300 calves and 800-acres and operating a haulage and contracting firm

‘Less is more, is my motto’ – downsizing from 70 to 17 organic dairy cows

‘In the valley where I come from, 1,000 cows are needed to break-even’

‘If a heifer does not milk 4.5 gallons after five weeks, I tube her’

EBI the focus on 400-cow dairy farm 

Father-and-son duo fetching up to €6,000 for commercial suckler weanlings

‘It is about profitability to make enough out of 120 cows for one person’

370-cow Cork farmers 21 years in dairying producing 650kgs/MS