DairyBeef 500 Factsheets

Approximately 60% of Irish beef is product of the dairy herd. These factsheets give advice and guidance on a range of key technologies for successful production of dairy beef.

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There are 12 factsheets available all pdfs:

• Profitable and environmentally sustainable dairy-beef systems
• Nutritional management of the dairy-beef calf - from arrival on
  beef farms to weaning
• The first 12 weeks at grass for dairy-beef calves
• Weanling health and nutrition
• Vaccination programmes for dairy-beef farms
• Combating internal parasite infection on dairy-beef farms
• Grazing management for dairy-beef systems
• Silage quality and concentrate supplementation
• Pasture-based systems for early-maturing dairy-beef heifers
• Finishing options for early-maturing dairy-beef steers
• Finishing Holstein Friesian dairy-beef steers
• Increasing the profitability of dairy-beef systems using the Commercial Beef Value (CBV)