Planning for Performance: Parasite and winter-feeding strategies for beef and sheep farmers
Various Dates
Greenmount Campus and Enniskillen Campus
Thursday 6th October, 7:30pm – CAFRE, Enniskillen Campus
CAFRE, AgriSearch and AFBI along with the NI Sheep SOS (Stamp out Scab) initiative are joining forces to hold two ‘Planning for Performance’ events. The events will be focused on parasite and winter-feeding strategies for beef and sheep farmers.
Anthelmintic Resistance (AR) is becoming widespread throughout the ruminant industries and targeted selective treatment offers the potential to reduce the use of anthelmintics on farm, and in turn reduce the instance of AR. Whilst TST has been found to be successful during research trials, uptake on commercial farms remains limited.
Farmers are facing significant challenges this winter with the large increases in input prices. Added to this, conditions for silage making in the early part of the season were challenging and early indications are that silage quality on many farms is well below average.
Speakers and agenda:
| Mark Scott, Head of Beef and Sheep, CAFRE | Introduction |
| Dr Eric Morgan, QUB | Introduction to targeted treatment of anthelmintics, alongside members of the Anthelmintic Targeted Selective Treatment (TST) EIP project who have been trying out TST approaches on farm over the past two grazing seasons |
| Paul Crawford, Veterinarian, Co Down | Update on the Northern Ireland Sheep Scab programme |
| Dominic Mason and Gareth Beacom, Beef and Sheep Advisers, CAFRE | A range of beef and sheep diet scenarios that farmers may wish to consider over the coming winter |
| Dr Francis Lively, AFBI | Beef Systems Modelling and long-term impacts of sub-optimal feeding of beef cattle over the winter |
| Mark Scott, Head of Beef and Sheep, CAFRE | Question and answer session |
Everyone is welcome:
To ensure sufficient refreshments are available, registration is encouraged but not essential.