News — KEENAN Service

Frank Dowling runs a busy spring calving herd in Freshford, Co. Kilkenny. He is feeding his dairy cows with a MechFiber360, his third KEENAN machine, during the winter and around June for buffer feeding. “One year, I forgot about servicing the machine and a bearing went. It was in the middle of winter, the machine was needed every day and I could not have done it without it,” says Frank. Since then, Frank gets his KEENAN serviced every year at the end of summer to have the machine ready for winter feeding. “A regular service avoids downtime for the machine...

Unprecedented increases in farm input prices, mainly feed, fertiliser and energy, has created a lot of concern for farmers throughout Europe. Predictions that were made early in the year have now been further revised due to the conflict in the Ukraine and its financial and supply repercussions. While farmers are worried there is a lot of evidence to suggest that they should be optimistic on some aspects as well. Milk price and beef prices increases Dairy farms have seen milk price reach 50 cents per litre (c/l) base price with some farms receiving over 60c/l based on their solids. The...