The rise in concentrate prices since last year will add about €80/hd to the cost of finishing a bullock and about €20/hd to the cost of over wintering a weanling, store or autumn-calving suckler cow.

Teagasc has produced an ‘oats factsheet’, which summaries the role this unique cereal can play within Irish beef finishing ...

Researchers have discovered that high-quality beef and big per-head profits can be achieved by starting early-weaned cattle on corn and finishing them on a diet high in co-products. The traditional ...

THE energy content is the most important constituent of a ration for finishing cattle. However, there is no simple analysis that can be done or no readily available measure of energy provided to the ...

Diets made up mainly of wholecrop wheat can offer a suitable alternative to bought-in cereals for finishing cattle, a recent study has found. Research at Harper Adams University found that 400kg ...

Beef finishers should always aim to keep production costs under control to optimise profits, writes ruminant nutritionist Brian Reidy. Beef finishers should always aim to keep production costs under ...

Less reliance on bought-in cereals and greater use of home-grown forage in cattle rations, as well as a sharper focus on herd health, are driving down greenhouse gas emissions from a breeder-finisher ...

Dr. Jenny Jennings, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research beef nutritionist in Amarillo, and her team are on their second research trial aimed at determining forage needs for proper rumination in beef cattle ...