Tag: Sucklers

‘You cannot starve calving difficulty out of cows and heifers’

Report: Average up €500/head on 2019 levels at Martin O’Connor’s sale

‘The notion that calving at 22-26 months will stunt their growth is simply not true’

‘If you break that down to 365 days, it is working out at 90c/kg in the price of a weanling’

‘This led to the herd being sold in its entirety’ – pedigree Limousin breeders

‘I try to breed roans too, but it is all about luck’

‘A suckler cow that is producing a €700 weanling is costing you money’

Aubrac breed ticking all the boxes for 70-cow suckler farmer

Opinion: Ireland’s 65,000 suckler farmers deserve a break

‘Relatively new and latecomer’ to suckling aiming to farm 60 cows