News

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...