‘I’m more concerned about reproduction, I don’t want to be pumping them with meal’
The looming breeding season is the priority for this award-winning Kilkenny dairy farmer, who has been determined to get his cows out to grass despite the weather
Paul Bowden farms alongside his parents Denis and Eileen on 195ac just outside Urlingford. Photos: Niall Hurson
With unrelenting rainfall hampering efforts to get grass into cows’ diet this spring, Kilkenny dairy farmer Paul Bowden is concerned about the level of ration feeding on his farm two weeks out from the breeding season.
Paul says the severity of the weather situation can clearly be seen when people switch from saying ‘look after the cows’ to looking after each other.
