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Producing 20 more calves a year at Greenvale


Mark s cows are on ad-lib baled silage.
This week, we headed to a dry and frosty Caithness to catch up with Mark and Shona MacKay at Greenvale on the very north coast of Scotland.
The 368ha unit has a mixture of land types, from good arable land that grows barley, to a sandy hill where Mark outwinters cattle, through to bog land that has been put into environmental schemes.
Mark and Shona have been increasing the productivity of the farm during the Farm Profit Programme.
The key to this has been expanding the suckler herd. In 2018, the MacKays registered 159 calves, while in 2020 this jumped to 191 calves. Explaining the rise, Mark said: “This year [2020] we registered 170 calves and as part of our expansion plan, we purchased 21 cows with calves at foot, giving 191 calves. Fourteen sets of twins also helped increase the number of calves registered.” ....

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