Eimear Diamond appointed Commercial Director for AGRITECH-NI
We are delighted to announce Ulster native, Eimear Diamond as our Commercial Director for our newly formed sister company, AGRITECH-NI Ltd. As one...
Metabolic Disorders: Think Prevention > Cure
Prevention of metabolic disorders next spring will hinge around management decisions that will be made over the next number of weeks. When costs...
Winter Feed Planning
Over the last number of weeks, growth has slowed significantly in many areas due to soil moisture deficits. This has resulted in many of us...
Optimate leads to improved herd fertility results in Co. Cork
“Overall, we were very happy with herd fertility. We used sexed semen across the board with our replacement heifers, where we achieved 60%...
Top tips to avoid a stressful weaning process
Most spring-calving suckler herds will be aiming to sell calves at weanling sales over the coming months. However, to have a healthy animal with...
Managing Through Soil Moisture Deficits
We are currently experiencing a huge variation in growth rates across the country. Average growth rates in drier areas have fallen dramatically,...
GroQuik® germination dressing excels on commercial farm trial
The application of a biological seed stimulant is a key step in exploiting the potential of grass; something which has been adopted by Agritech from...
Optimise Dairy Herd Performance This Autumn
For many parts of the country, grass quality has been somewhat of a struggle and now that some welcome rain has arrived, it is important that our...
Make Replacement Heifers A Priority
As the next generation of milking cows. it is important that we do not lose focus on achieving replacement heifer target weights over the autumn....
Don’t Delay Autumn Reseeding
For many, autumn reseeding is the preferred option, due to reduced pressure on grass availability, increased availability of grazing ground after...
Maintaining Milk Production Over the Summer
At this point in the year, the majority of the heavy lifting in terms of nutrition is complete. However, we must not lose focus, we need to ensure...
Grazing 2022: The battle for quality continues
Over the entire spring and early grazing season, the key focus on farm has been centred around always having high quality feed available to cows –...