Feed Your Soils Correctly for the Best Return on Fertiliser
By Liam Stack, M.Agr.Sc Ruminant Technical Manager Buying fertiliser without getting your soil sampled and a having a fertiliser plan is like ordering feed without knowing what group of animals…
View Post >Why You Should Get Your Soil Tested with Dairygold
The Health of Our Soils By Rósín O’Donnell, B.Agr.Sc, Dairygold Agri Business Graduate 0867938408 As an industry we are striving to grow more grass in a sustainable manor. Grass is…
View Post >Benefits of Using DIGEST-IT Slurry Additive
Dairygold Agri Business in conjunction with Devenish and Gouldings are pleased to introduce DIGEST-IT®, a biological slurry additive designed to increase nutrient recovery from slurry while also reducing ammonia emissions….
View Post >Time to Get Your Silage Tested, Here’s How With Dairygold
Dairygold Agri Business have silage testing available, where either individuals can take their silage samples themselves or a Sampler can be sent out on farm to take samples using a…
View Post >Time for Building Soil Potassium
Potassium (K) has a major role in the efficient use of nitrogen (N) by the grass plant during the growing season. Grass silage crops have the largest demand for N…
View Post >Maintaining Milk Volume During Adverse Weather Conditions
Milk volume should decline at no greater than 2% per week or 10% per month. Volume declines of greater than this are an indication of poor energy nutrition. Once volume…
View Post >4 Steps to Feeding Spring Calved Cows in Late Lactation
By LIAM STACK, M.Agr.Sc Ruminant Technical Manager Prolong the Grazing Season As we reach September and beyond, we need to extend our rotation lengths and build a wedge of grass…
View Post >Act Now to Maximise the Length of your Grazing Season
Right down we have 14% less grass on farms than we should have. If we do not act now we will run out of grass earlier than planned. We need…
View Post >Spread Nitrogen Now to Maximise Grazing Season
Pasturebase data has shown us that its not uncommon for many dairy farmers to end up with a lower supply of grass than they would like entering into the autumn….
View Post >Replenish Land After Taking Out Surplus Bales
Liam Stack, M.Agr.Sc, Ruminant Technical Manager After taking out surplus grass as bales, it’s important to replace what we’ve taken out in terms of N, P + K to ensure…
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