The liberals who’ve been trying to legislate the weather lately now say that we are facing a “national climate emergency” and ...

For Waterford dairy farmer Pat Gough, Moonsyst bolus heat detection technology has brought his breeding efficiency to a new ...

Ketonor+ is a 135g bolus to reduce the risk of ketosis that contains propionate as a source of glucose for at risk cows. Ketonor+ is cost-effective, does not contain antimicrobials, has no ...

Achieving high conception rates and ensuring a successful breeding season both depend on serving the right cow at the right ...

Given his Irish descent, one could be forgiven for thinking it was all luck that Brian Corr was able to buy his own dairy farm, share farm another and build up to a 900 cow milking herd in the space ...

For both clinical and subclinical milk fever prevention it is important to administer calcium boluses to cows expecting twins at the point of calving or else just after. Feed intake after calving ...

Methane is an immensely challenging problem for the Irish dairy and beef sectors, but science is providing the means – mainly ...

We use a lot of Ketoprofen as it has nil milk withdrawal. In most instances now when a cow seems off colour or when the Smaxtec bolus indicates an increase in temperature we’ll give a shot of ...

Note: Mg and P are major elements not supplied by boluses. It is recommended to feed 17g of Mg and ... Premium minerals may cost more, but their benefits in reducing calving issues, promoting cow and ...

The bolus is a simple bivalent product ... I mean, this is biological, this is cows, there’s so many different factors, there’s always going to be variants. But, I think, we’ve tried ...

The bolus is a simple bivalent product ... So, yes, we expanded farms, we expanded cows, we expanded colostrum collection. And then the slowdown meant that we didn’t need it all at that time, ...