Oats have never been considered much of an option for finishing beef cattle, as rolled barley has always been considered the ...

WITH fodder supplies limited this year, one of the alternative options available to farmers is to feed straw to cattle. It should be noted, however, that it is important to supplement the feed and to ...

It has been a good autumn for grass growth, but with deteriorating weather conditions cattle will soon have to be housed. At this stage the quantity and the quality of the silage that you have in your ...

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In a major advance for livestock and climate science in the region, scientists at ILRI's Mazingira Centre have directly ...

Cattle on Irish and British farms are to be fed seaweed as part of a project aimed at cutting their methane emissions by almost a third. The trial, which is being led by academics from Queen's ...

Cases of botulism in a herd of cattle are being investigated by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha) after hundreds of cows are reported to have died and been ...