Beef Cattle
Croft & Small Farms: A Season with Cattle – Getting Ready for Winter
On Wednesday 3rd November at 7:00pm we will be joined by SAC Consulting Livestock Nutritionist Mary Young, SAC Consulting Beef Consultant Lesley Wylie and SRUC’s Veterinary Centre Manager, Dr Franz…
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Farm Management Handbook 2021/22
The 42nd edition of the Farm Management Handbook is an essential tool for any progressive farm business, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date source of information for farmers, crofters, rural professionals,…
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Technical Note (TN746): Management of Nutrition Around Calving in the Suckler Herd
Summary Nutrition and body condition of the suckler cow has a very important role to play in ensuring the cow successfully delivers and rears a calf every year. Nutrition around…
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Technical Note (TN745): Metabolic Profiling in the Suckler Herd
Introduction to Metabolic Profiling Metabolic profiling involves blood testing cows at key times of the production cycle to assess nutritional status. It is often used as a management tool in…
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Technical Note (TN744): Management of Replacement Heifers into the Suckler Herd
The goal of breeding heifer management is to produce a healthy, productive animal that produces a calf annually as part of the herd. This technical note will focus on managing…
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Women in Agriculture, Lanarkshire: Cattle Record Keeping Requirements
Cracking up over cattle records? Come along to the second Lanarkshire Women in Agriculture meeting of 2021 which will focus on cattle record keeping requirements. Cattle identification and record keeping…
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Auction Marts COVID19 Update
Throughout the COVID pandemic auction marts remained open, operating under a strict and robust set of guidelines however as restrictions ease and we move forward into a new phase of…
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Podcast – Livestock Monthly: Beef (July 2021)
In the latest of our livestock monthly podcasts episodes hosted by Beef Specialist Robert Ramsay of SAC Consulting, we talk beef with George Baikie, Head of SRUC Farms.
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A Guide to Feed Budgeting
Forward planning forage supplies helps understand whether you will have enough conserved forage to meet the livestock demand – this is becoming more critical as weather is fluctuating more from…
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