Beef farmers wanted for research project looking at reducing finishing age of cattle
Expressions of interest from suckler and dairy-beef farms are being sought. Photo: Roger Jones
Teagasc is looking for beef farmers to get involved in a research project looking at reducing the average finishing age of the ‘prime’ cattle population to 22-23 months.
As part of the Beef-Quest project, a new large-scale on-farm study is planned that will aim to generate new data to investigate the effect of nutrition, health and on-farm environment on the lifetime weight gain performance of cattle on commercial beef farms.
