Cultivate News May 30th
30 May, 2023Dairygold milk quality awards
Denis O’Leary from Blarney, Co. Cork received the top prize at [tag] Dairygold’s milk quality awards last week.
The O’Learys milk 130 pedigree Friesian cows and were chosen for the award out of 2,600 other Dairygold suppliers, the herd had 577kg of milk solids per cow last year at an average SCC of 87,000. The herd has an EBI of €230 which was the highest of all finalists in the milk quality awards.
Dry spell grass growth
Martin Merrick writing in the [tag] Irish Farmers Journal has advice for managing grass during the current dry spell.
👉Farmers on drier soils should be especially mindful of their grassland management in the next few weeks with continued dry weather expected👉While grass is still growing well farmers should keep up to date with fertiliser application to prevent stressing the plant
👉Average farm cover should not dip below 550kg DM/ha for any farm enterprise or 150kg DM/LU
Silage wrap prices
With silage season in full swing, silage wrap is trading around €110-€118 per roll (including VAT and levies) depending on the brand and location across the country, according to the [tag] Irish Farmers Journal.
This is down slightly on this time last year when it was trading at approx. €115-€120/roll but this year’s prices are still reflective of the big jump in prices from 2021 into 2022, when the price of a roll went up more than 30%.
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