National Milk Quality Farm Walk (in association with NDC, Ornua, Lakeland Dairies)

12 June 2019 12 June 2019 Farm walk on the 2018 National Winners of the NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards

A farm walk will take place on the McKenna family farm on Wednesday 12^th June at 1.30pm.

The event is organised by Teagasc, with the support of Lakeland Dairies Co-op, the National Dairy Council and Ornua, and celebrates the excellence of Irish dairy farming highlighted annually by the NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards.

 

The farm walk will address the following topics:

• Review of farm performance
• 2018 performance figures: 521 kg milk solids per cow (3.42% protein, 4.19% butterfat), SCC 70,000 cells/ml, 80% six-week calving rate
• Producing high quality milk with low SCC and TBC
• Sustainable milk production while caring for the environment
• Reduced antibiotic usage: the case for selective dry cow therapy
• Taste the difference: grass fed milk tastes better!

All welcome. 

Directions: The farm is located adjacent to the village of Emyvale, which itself is on the N2 Dublin to Derry road.  The farm will be signposted from Emyvale | GPS co-ordinates: 54.335937,-6.950582 | Eircode: H18 CY99