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Milk Protein and butterfats are a huge part of the milk cheque revenue and will become even more important into the future. The basics on Milk Protein and its production is that it requires energy to make it. Genetics in the cow are important but if you do not feed...

I’ve been able to spend some time travelling to some of our customers farms in the last few days and from talking to many of our customers and representatives we have pieced together a general on-farm report for April 1st 2014. Dairy cow report. In general all cows were well...

Our range of Fertility booster Dairy feeds has proven to be very effective on saving our customers money. Using our practical experience and in consultation with our nutritional advisors we can offer a fertility booster mineral pack on our Dairy feeds in 2014. Those of you that experienced the positive...

The weather looks to be improving after the long spell of wet and cold weather. For the near future at least the outlook is for good drier weather with a decent amount of wind which should help drying conditions. There is a lot of pressure on farmers now to get...

I recently had the opportunity to visit a Dutch dairy farm. I found it quite eye opening to see how the Dutch method of Dairying compares with the Irish method. The first thing that strikes anyone visiting rural Holland is the lack of cows in the fields. The land there...

The following Financial Times article highlights the challenges that we face on a day to day basis to get the best value for our customers. With Soya prices continuing to rise and bringing the price of feed protein up with it, we at O’Connell Milling are working hard sourcing quality...

The latest information is that todays forecasted storm will not be as severe as Wednesdays storm Darwin. However there is a lot of rain forecast for today and tonight along with very cold temperatures leading to sleet, hail and snow in places. Please Make sure your buildings and animals are...

My thanks to Des Cronin from Inform Nutrition and all the delegates who braved the inclement weather to attend last night. We had a very informative talk on cow nutrition, cow health and how to boost her productivity economically. Des has been working for Inform Nutrition in Cork for 18 years...

Following on from the Dairy Seminar hosted by O’Connell mills and held in Listowel last night here is a brief summary on the topics discussed. Morgan Sheehy from Devenish Nutrition spoke about his 3 legged stool concept for Irish farmers. The three legs of the stool are, Farm Management, Animal Health...

Thanks to all that attended the dairy seminar in Newcastlewest last night. It was an informative discussion on Dairy nutrition, maximising fodder and feed and the future of dairy in 2015. The main take home points that were made are that Dry matter Intake  (DMI) drives production in the Dairy...