The ingredients are Rolled Barley, Rolled Oats, Rolled Field Beans and Rolled Wheat. Molasses along with a top quality Beef Mineral plus buffer are included to promote top rumen function and ultimately animal performance. This ration retails at €249 bulk blown delivered.

Customer feedback on this ration is hugely positive and we are confident that this ration is performing every bit as good as a ration containing high levels of imported maize and imported proteins. We fully recognise that maize as a feed ingredient works especially well in an ad-lib/high concentrate feeding system; while in a conventional beef finishing system where grass silage/maize silage forms the backbone of the diet, supplementation with a number of kilos of our ‘All Irish Beef Finisher’ ration delivers excellent animal performance. A carefully formulated ration, built on Irish cereals and pulses, performs every bit as good in the more typical beef finishing systems found on the vast majority of Irish farms, when compared to a ration containing imported maize and proteins – GM containing feed ingredients – will do.

This season we have added a second Coarse Beef Ration to the ‘Irish’ range:

Irish Beef Rearer Plus – a 15% Crude Protein ration designed for feeding to weanlings, yearlings and growing cattle. This ration contains Rolled Barley, Rolled Oats, Rolled Field Beans and Rolled Wheat. However in order to deliver the additional protein required by younger, growing cattle we have included Rapeseed. The rapeseed we are using is of EU origin; is GM-free; and is in pelleted rather than meal form. This ration also contains molasses, a top quality Beef Mineral as well as a proven buffer to help minimise the risk of digestive upsets due to the high cereal/starch content. The Net Energy content (UFV) of this ration, on an as fed basis, is 0.95. N.B. ALL ingredients contained in this ration are GM-free. This ration retails at €257 per tonne bulk blown delivered.  

Introducing 2 New Dairy Feeds:

           Irish Dairy Plus 16%                       Irish Dairy Plus 18%

This autumn we have gone a step further by extending the ‘Irish’ range to include two top quality coarse feeds for dairy cows. Both of these rations again include a level of GM-free European rapeseed, in pelleted form, in order to meet the protein requirements of dairy cows.

Irish Dairy Plus 16% and Irish Dairy Plus 18%. The locally-grown ingredients in these feeds are Rolled Barley, Rolled Oats, Rolled Field Beans and Rolled Wheat. European Rapeseed (pelleted), molasses and a high specification Dairy Mineral plus Buffer completes these choice formulations. The 16% ration retails at €260; the 18% ration sells for €265 bulk blown delivered.

We are finding that a number of our dairy farmer customers are successfully feeding these coarse rations through their in-parlour feeders, with no problems, especially where they are feeding up to approx. 3 kilos – 4 kilos daily (ie. up to 2 kilos per milking). These two rations contain little or no mealy, dusty ingredients. In practice where higher concentrate feeding levels are being fed, we are finding a number of our customers feed a small level of nuts in the parlour at milking time & our coarse rations are being fed to cows either before or after milking via a diet feeder or simply by spreading the ration on top of grass silage along the length of a feed trough.

For further information on our All Irish Beef Finisher, our Irish Beef Rearer Plus and our Irish Dairy Plus 16% and Irish Dairy Plus 18% coarse rations, and/or to discuss how these feeds may fit into your feeding system, please do not hesitate to contact your local Drummonds branch or technical feed sales advisor.