When it comes to having a profitable sheep enterprise, it is crucial that your lambs get off to the best possible start. In the first 7-10 days of their life, lambs rely solely on ...
NEWS
DAFM have scrapped the 3-crop rule for the 2024 season, but rotation obligations must be met by 2026.
Food Vision Tillage group are requesting €60 million ...
Read more: Agronomy Update - April 2024
Dublin Airport have recorded over 580mm of rain from July to November 2023. This indicates that approximately 80% of annual rainfall has fallen in the last five months, and it is no surprise that ...
Read more: Agronomy Update - December 2023
Winter Cereal Varieties for 2022/23
Now is the time to start thinking about which winter cereal varieties you are going to choose. Drummonds offer a range of the highest performing varieties which ...
Read more: Winter Cereal Varieties for 2022/23
During the coming weeks sheep farmers will be assessing the condition of their flock’s pre lambing.
A ewe will approximately consume 1kg daily of Dry matter feed in the weeks pre lambing. 1kg of ...
Read more: Ewe Nutrition
Rainfall and poor ground conditions often lead to poaching. It is estimated that poaching can reduce grass growth by 20% for subsequent grazing, which could prove costly next Spring.
We can reduce ...
Read more: Managing grazing and minding your soil
December is when most of the spring calving herds will be dried off. Cows should be dried off once production is less than 9 litres per day. Plan to have a 6-to-8-week dry period in order to maximise ...
Read more: Dry Cow Management
Drummonds have always provided a top quality soil testing service and practical advice, which can be carried out by your local branch / advisor. Drummonds are now taking soil analysis to the next ...
Read more: Soil Sampling
A culmination of a wet summer and an early winter have left some farmers under pressure with fodder supplies this spring. The wet summer has also meant silage quality isn’t as high as many farmers ...
Read more: Stretching Fodder
Why Analyse Silage?
Matching the dietary nutrient supply with that of the animal’s requirements is crucial in maintaining production and reducing losses. Failure to do this will result in over ...
Read more: Silage Analysis
With the spring calving campaign well underway, dairy farms can be very busy places. With so much work to do, it’s very easy to become immersed in calving and keeping animals healthy and alive that ...
Read more: Managing Freshly Calved Cows
It is estimated that feed accounts for 70% of variable costs for beef cattle production. Efficient feeding will have a positive effect on the productivity and overall profitability of beef production ...
Read more: Focus on Feed Quality
The inclusion of red clover in grazing or cutting leys is a step towards improving whole farm feed efficiency in ruminant production systems. Clover plants are high in protein and therefore can ...
Read more: Managing Red Clover
Brassica crops can provide a nutritious and cost- effective feed source for cattle and sheep over the winter period. Crops such as Kale and Forage rape are capable of producing high dry matter (DM) ...
Read more: Out Wintering on Forage Crops
Grass and clover in combination within a mixture produce scientifically proven yield benefits versus the same varieties sown individually. White clover has been selected to withstand being grazed or ...
Read more: ADDING WHITE CLOVER TO THE SWARD
Oilseed Rape
There is still time to get OSR into the ground before it is too late. Switching to a more vigorous variety with rapid autumn development such as PT303 or DK ExStar is key when sowing ...
Read more: Oilseed Rape
Ewe Nutrition Pre Lambing
With the beginning of the new year, early lamb producing sheep farmers are beginning to turn their attention to the run into lambing again. Good ewe ...
Read more: Feeds Update - January 2024
Lime
Delivering and spreading lime at affordable prices across all our branches. The benefit of liming Irish soil is well known and was one of the earliest soil management practices that farmers ...
Read more: Lime
The Grain Aphid, Sitobion avenae is a main vector of the Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (BYDV), a virus that can cause significant yield loss in Irish cereals. In terms of the infection of newly emerging ...
Read more: Drummonds Participate in Aphid Monitoring