Future Beef farmer, Aonghusa Fahy on his farm system and management at weaning

Galway Future Beef farmer, Aonghusa Fahy features on this week’s Beef Edge podcast to give an update on his farm system and management at weaning.

Even though the weather has been challenging, the weanlings have still performed well, Aonghusa explains. Weaning will take place in groups of 10. Concentrates have been fed to the calves for the past six weeks to reduce stress at weaning, and they have been vaccinated.

A lot of rain has fallen in the west in the past few weeks, yet grass management on the farm is good, although it has been hard to manage quality.

On the podcast, Aonghusa also discusses the steer and heifer from his farm that will be on the Teagasc stand at this year’s National Ploughing Championships. The heifer will be retained and put in calf next year to calve down at 24 months. Over the coming months, it will be important to maximise performance of these animals over the winter period to ensure they achieve 0.6kg/head/day.

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