Today's Farm - Jan/Feb 2017

Healthy calves: The future of your herd.

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Articles

Dairying

• Early Grazing: it's not just for spring calvers (pdf) - Joe Patton
• How much poaching is acceptable? Moisture probe takes out the guesswork (pdf) - James Humphries and Dan Barrett
• Grazing coaches building grass management skills (pdf) - Kay O'Connell
• Calf health and management: the essentials (pdf) - Catherine Colfer
• High-tech international milk research links - The Teagasc Milking Machine maintenance & Research Programme (pdf) - John Upton 
• Maintenance tips for milking machines (pdf) - Tom Ryan
• Carlow farm makes rapid progress - new entrant driving milk solids per hectare on a mixed owned/leased farm in Carlow (pdf) - Eamonn Grace and Richard O'Brien

Drystock

• KT Beef Farm Improvement Plans - what you need to know (pdf) - James Keane
• Vaccinating your flock against clostridia and pasteurella (pdf) - Ciaran Lynch
• What makes a perfect steak? (pdf) - Lauren Van Rooyen, Lara Moran, Gonzalo Delgado-Pando

Equine

• Equine winter care (pdf) - Wendy Conlon

Farm Management

• Why data is plentiful and information is scarce (pdf) - Kevin Connolly

Tillage

• Benefits of liming? Ask our ancestors (pdf) - Paul Fox
• Bounteous benefits from growing beans (pdf) - John Carroll

Botanic Gardens

• The beauty of beech (pdf)- Paddy Smith

Environment

• Picking apples and choosing trees (pdf) - Catherine Keena

Forestry

• Trees get the personal touch (pdf) - Michael Somers