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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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Breeding and fertility
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Housing and handling
Health and welfare
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Livestock marketing
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Calving detection technology: 3 options compared

From smart boluses to cameras and tail-mounted devices, the evolution of technology means unnecessary late-night trips to the calving shed can be a thing of the past. Three farmers share…

HEALTH AND WELFARE

Benefits of magnesium for suckler cows ahead of calving

If beef farmers are assisting a high proportion of cows at calving, or if stillbirth rate is higher than wanted, then cow magnesium status could be to blame. Magnesium is…

SHEEP

Contracts and grazing lets grow family livestock business

A can-do attitude has seen a husband-and-wife team capitalise on grazing lets, putting them on track to run 1,000 ewes and 30 suckler cows of their own. Sussex graziers David…

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