We had a great response and turnout to the latest Dairy seminar held in Templeglantine at the Devon inn. The speaker for this event was Des Cronin from Inform Nutrition. Des is a well respected nutritionist with 25 years experience in Ruminant Animal Nutrition all over the world. Here is...
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Crecora Mills continues to go green!
Here at Crecora Mills we continue to strive to operate our business in the most environmentally aware manner. Being farmers ourselves and having a close association with the land means we continue to look for better, cleaner and more efficient ways to make high quality animal feeds for our customers....
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Low Milk Price Case Study
Here at Crecora Mills we are getting lots of questions on farms as to what dairy farmers options are at the moment. Lets look at an average Case study of a Herd of 100 cows. We will assume that calving will be starting in early January and running on into late...
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Why Feed Dairy Cows?
Why feed Dairy cows? Why do we as farmers feed dairy cows concentrate instead of just using silage and grass and what do we want from Animal Feed? Surely it would be a cheaper option to just use the land we have to feed our animals and not buy any outside...
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Farm Safety First Aid kits
As part of our constant strive towards better farm safety we can know offer a farm safety first aid kit and 2 kg fire extinguisher in our Stores in Crecora, Castlemahon and Listowel. We have worked with our First Aid supplier to tailor a Farm First Aid kit specifically to...
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Acidosis. What is it and how to prevent it.
We have all heard about acidosis in beef and dairy cows and the negative effects it can have on animal health. The negative effects of acidosis are reduced intake, problems with feet, reduced milk yields/ milk solids and lower weight gain in beef cattle. These are some serious problems so what...
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Smart Calver
Smart Calver Another quality product from Crecora Mills “We only mix with the best” The most stressful time for any farmer is the period around calving season. With so much potential for problems around this area we have been working hard to make this time as easy, profitable and stress free...
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Solutions to Problem Calvings
Its unfortunate that in the last few days we have been contacted by farmers with problems at calving and after. From retained placentas, loss of condition coughing up cuds and weak cows these problems are starting to stack up and cost farmers dearly. We had signalled these problems as far back as...
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Crecora Mills Jan 2015 Adare Seminar Summary
Here at Crecora Mills we value our customers and see it as our job to help and inform them as best we can. With this in mind we ran another of our Dairy seminars in Adare recently. Des Cronin, who is a well known and respected head nutritionist at Inform...
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Dairy Seminars Jan 2015
Our annual early season dairy seminars are taking place this week. The venues are Listowel in the Listowel Arms on Tuesday the 13th at 8pm and Adare in the Woodlands house hotel on Thursday the 15th at 8pm. We have managed to secure some great well known and respected speakers...
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