Tag: IHFA

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

EBI the focus on 400-cow dairy farm 

‘It looks like I am at home for the next 20 years’ – 200 cow farmer (24)

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

‘We are both over 60 with no obvious successor’ – 70-cow farmers

110 cows, 210ac, 685kgs/MS, up to 10,000L/cow

105 cows, 540kgs of MS, and selling progeny nationwide

‘I cannot see why in 20 years we could not have a herd average of 1t of solids’

‘A Holstein Friesian cow delivers the most milk per acre’