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March 15, 2021 10:50 am
Teagasc has responded to a “growing interest in contract arrangements” between farmers to rear calves and other young cattle by developing new contract agreement templates.
With growing dairy herds, many dairy farmers are now beginning to encounter difficulties in sourcing high quality skilled labour, the agricultural authority says.
Other factors for this include a lack of available lands to lease/purchase, and in cases limited or inadequate calf/heifer rearing facilities.
As a result, more dairy farmers are looking to outsource the rearing of calves through contract rearing agreements.
Meanwhile, in other farming enterprises, poor and volatile market prices have resulted in poor profitability of other main farming enterprises. ....

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