Know How / Beef

Profitably transforming day-old calves into fat cattle requires mastering many skills ranging from fertility management to achieving the best daily liveweight gain.

Whether you run a suckler herd or rear or finish beef cattle, browse our beef articles to find out how to improve beef farm profitability and productivity.

Key areas of focus:

  • Optimising productivity of the suckler herd
  • Achieving good weight gains and performance
  • Improving herd health and welfare
  • Management of healthy youngstock
  • Selecting the best market for your produce

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Benefits of cell grazing for efficiency and farm succession

Succession planning has prompted a Welsh upland farm to switch from suckler beef production on a set stocking system, to growing Wagyu cattle on an intensive form of rotational grazing.…

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Ultra-high or low frequency EID tags: Which is best?

A debate is raging about what tag technology should be used in the UK’s national cattle traceability scheme when it eventually arrives. The stand-off is between the low frequency (LF)…

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Tips on improving silage quality in a wet season

Chasing high dry matter in clamp silages is costing livestock farmers money in terms of feed quality and sustainability. Rather than wilting this year’s bumper grass crops for 36-48 hours…

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Tips on using and cleaning a milk pasteuriser correctly

Pasteurising whole milk for calves kills major pathogens while protecting useful antibodies – but it is not a remedy for unhygienic practices. Keeping the machine clean inside and out, and…

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