How to achieve high performance in a dairy calf-to-beef system

Due to the expansion of the Irish dairy herd over recent years more dairy-origin calves are available for beef production, but considerable scope exists for integration of beef and dairy farmers’ needs. Nicky Byrne & Alan Dillon have advice on achieving high performance

In the attached article the following Nicky Byrne & Alan Dillon give information on the following:

• Components of a high performance calf to beef system. 
• Calf health
• Calf rearing and nutrition
• Grassland management
• Achieving targets on Teagasc Green Acres Farms 
• Aiming to improve calf performance 
• Improving calf quality 

Beef - Virtual Beef Week, Tuesday - Dairy calf to beef (pdf)