TREATING lambs like a cash crop and growing them as quickly and economically as possible is a must and is reliant on feeding the right type of supplementation and keeping them healthy. We need to grow ...

C reep feeding is a means of providing supplemental nutrients to nursing animals with feed not available to the mother. It can be in the form of grain, protein supplements, commercial creep feed, or ...

GRASS is scarce. The constant change from frosty dry spells followed by wet milder spells and reverting back to frosty spells again has done little to promote growth. This is the situation on the ...

THE normally sedate Irish Grassland Association was treated to unusually robust exchanges at last week's conference. These exchanges started when Dr Tim Keady concluded that creep feeding of lambs at ...

First-cut silage is now in the clamp. While all went without a hitch, grass yields were well down. I’m hoping for a bulkier second cut, which we will aim to cut in early July. Time will tell if the ...

A farmer is using the knowledge he gained while farming in England, on his sheep and cattle operation on the NSW northern tablelands. Kevin Feakins runs some lesser known breeds on his property at ...