surprise you – some 40 Irish farmers have been roaming their cattle pastures, kicking apart the drier cow pats and peering into their depths. Retrieving small black beetles from their sticky ...

A new report explores labor time-use on Irish pasture-based dairy farms in the ... were calf care (14%), grassland management (13%), cow care (10%), repairs and maintenance (10%), and ...

said an unseasonably warm fall has helped him stretch his pastures amid a hay shortage. “When it’s mild temperatures like this, [the cows] actually consume less just because their requirements ...