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

Latest Know How

BEEF

How grass growth benefits from early beef cattle turnout

Beef farmers running low on silage or bedding straw can turn out a small group of yearlings, or other lightweight cattle, in February to graze overwintered grass. Not only will…

BREEDING AND FERTILITY

How cattle in-vitro fertilisation breeds more elite females

The use of in-vitro fertilisation in cattle breeding is growing globally, driven by advances in genomics and an increasing desire among farmers to breed more intensively from their best animals.…

LIVESTOCK

How farming brothers are preparing for business succession

Clearly defined goals, and a roadmap for achieving them, are essential ingredients for a farming business to transition successfully to the next generation. Northumberland farming brothers Duncan and Angus Nelless…

FEED AND NUTRITION

Foliar feed boosts forage maize in drought, farm trial shows

Using foliar feeds on maize challenged by soil nutrient deficiencies and drought increased yield by 36t/ha on a Welsh livestock farm. Nigel Bowyer and his family grow 8ha (20 acres)…

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