Dr Dan's Newspaper Articles
THE LEAVING CERT CHALLENGE!
15th August 2018
The impact of the drought still pertains on many dairy farms in the South East and Midlands. The contrasts in challenges...Read More »
WATER SHORTAGE INCREASES LATER EMBRYO DEATH
18th July 2018
Water is an integral element of our daily industry. The current drought is having enormous adverse effects on both welfare of...Read More »
INFERTILE BULLS AND EMBRYO DEATH REDUCE 6 WEEK CALVING RATES
20th June 2018
The improvement in weather for the past three weeks has provided an excellent opportunity to preserve top quality silage and...Read More »
THE CREAM ALWAYS COMES TO THE TOP
23rd May 2018
This has been an extremely difficult season to date. Grazing conditions and indeed the opportunity for zero grazing have been...Read More »
PLANNING ON ACCURATE HEAT DETECTION
30th April 2018
An improvement in soil temperatures has brought relief to most dairy farmers as they see an opportunity to get cows outdoors by...Read More »
DAIRY HERD MANAGEMENT IN A FODDER CRISIS
28th March 2018
This will be a challenging year for breeding programmes for spring calving in 2019. The seeds have already been set which...Read More »
OPTIMISING THE HEALTH TRIANGLE ON SPRING CALVING DAIRY HERDS
28th February 2018
The workload on spring calving dairy herds has now stepped up into "sixth gear" as we approach week 5 of the calving season on...Read More »
OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF COWS AND CALVES IN SPRING CALVING SEASON
7th February 2018
Spring calving programmes will begin now for grass based milk production systems. The target is to have 90% of cows calved in a...Read More »
PREPARING FOR WINTER MILK PRODUCTION IN 2018
20th December 2017
The morning and evening hum of milking parlours harvesting milk from daily herds has ceased for a six week period. There are...Read More »
HOUSING MANAGEMENT OF THE DAIRY HERD
27th November 2017
The persistent wet weather over the past two months has resulted in an early winter housing period for many beef and dairy...Read More »