Certified Cereal Seed, The Benefits!
• Guaranteed vigor & germination of at least 85%
• Guaranteed purity of at least 98%
• Guaranteed clean & screened seed, free of wild oats
• Guaranteed even seed treatment with a hi-tech fungicide
• Access to the very best of new & highest yielding varieties under Irish conditions
• All seed grown, stored, monitored and assembled to the highest of standards.
• Peace of mind.
DON’T RISK YOUR BUSINESS & OUR AG INDUSTRY WITH DODGY SEED!!
ALWAYS USE CERTIFIED SEED!!

Sow beans ASAP, when soil conditions permit. Fury & Fuego are our varieties of choice this year. Fury is new, and is 1% better yielding & has improved resistance to downy mildew. Correct sowing is very important, because its at a very hungry time of the year for birds. Sow to a depth of 3-4 inches (7.5-10cm), via slow forward speed. Desired plant population is
25 to 30 plants per square meter. Seed is still in transit, so we cannot do a thousand grain weight, talk to us on seeding rate.
Aim to have bean sowing completed by early March.

Nugget Dairy Rations are the Cows Best Friend Post Calving!

Choose from Super Dairy 18% or Turbo 21% where silage protein is low.
• Exceptional value guaranteed.
• High Maize & Cereal content.
• Excellent fertility and milk yield feedback.
• Full nutritional service available.

Mega break-through in Wonderthrive Milk Replacer for 2012.
As an option it now comes with Lungbooster included, which is a combination of active plant extracts, with excellent activity against coccidia and cryptosporidium (The main scour causing bugs).
All for an extra cost of only 2euro per bag, which means with the value of calves this year, 2euro is irrelevant!
We feel Lungbooster will be of huge advantage in calf rearing, as 44,000 calves died in 2010 between birth and 6 weeks old and a further 27,000 were stillbirths. (It must be possible to reduce these figures)

Recent adjustments to Wonderthrive have made it even easier to mix, together with longer lasting freshness.
Wonderthrive is a yogurt enriched milk replacer.
Yogurt promotes the production of beneficial bacteria in the digestive tract and therefore creates a healthier calf.
Mix at a rate of 125grams of powder to 1lt of water.
Wonderthrive is costing approx 23cent to produce 1lt of milk. Creameries were paying over 40cent/lt for milk in the back-end of 2011, so it more than pays to feed Top Quality Wonderthrive milk replacer.

Shop Specials available this month include:

• Savage value on fluke & worm dosing

• Acorn Acomec pour-on available in 1lt, 2.5lt & 5lt

• Acomec 500ml injection only €35euro

• Bimectin Plus 500ml injection (fluke/worms) at €125euro.

• 20 space galv. ring feeder €1666euro (vat incl.)

• 8ft double galv. cattle trough €145euro (vat incl.)

• Now stocking a large selection of treated larch stakes.

Beat the threat of pneumonia with Pulmosure!

Pulmosure is a new cost-effective support for animals in the fight against pneumonia, for use in a preventative manner. It is a new and clever way of dealing with the problem and has no withdrawal period.

• It works via an anti-bacterial effect.
• Stimulates specific immunity, supports a specific immune response.
• Facilitates easier breathing.
• Increases mucous production and therefore the removal of harmful pneumonia causing bacteria.

It comes in a 7kg bucket, which will treat 28 by 200kg weanlings for 10 days.
Dosage rate is 12.5grams per 100kg of bodyweight.
It is an extremely palatable powder which can be either mixed with meal or dusted on top of the feed.
Available from all our branches and now included in
Super Weanling Crunch + Lung Boost.
Feeding levels of 1kg per 100kg of liveweight per head per day for 10-14 days.

Pick out the cattle that you intend to fatten this winter & keep them on the best of grass until housing. Very often there can be a good price on offer for heifers fattened before Christmas, and so forward heifers may benefit from this price if meals are now introduced and built up to a high level before housing. This gives the added effect of a shorter turnaround time. Forward bulls should be housed by now & on route to ad-lib concentrate feeding.

Grass quality is deteriorating at the moment and grass will be becoming a lot lower in dry matter, which means all stock will benefit from concentrate supplementation. This will also help to prolong the grazing season.

Important: Grow the animal before you fatten. Protein is what will grow the animal, energy is what will fatten. Too often you now see fat, low sized animals at 1 year of age, because they were pushed too hard on the wrong diet.

Growing animals need copious levels of protein until fully grown, when their protein requirement is reduced to very small quantities.

Nugget Rations – Always The Best!

For Optimum Weight Gain & Milk Yield!

Since the introduction of the suckler cow welfare scheme, weanling buyers have reported far less health problems due to feeding 2kg of meal pre-weaning. It is a requirement under the scheme to feed meal for at least 4 weeks pre-weaning.

We recently analysed some crusher dust from Loughnanes Quarry in Birr, and we found that it has 50% the value of normal ground limestone. This means that you just have to double the normal rate to get your desired p.H. It is priced very well at 7.50euro per tonne ex-quarry. We are very pleased with this finding as it provides us with a local source of lime.

Lime is essential in order to make nutrients available. The optimum soil p.H for grassland is 6.3, but the average soil p.H of Irish mineral soils is only 5.4.

  We recommend Acorn Grass Seed for the following reasons:

• Contain the newest and best grass varieties.
• They incorporate both high yielding and high digestibility traits.
• Based only on tried, tested & proven varieties from the dept of Agriculture recommended list.
• Contain only pelleted nitrogen tolerant clover.
• A focused and regular reseeding programme using Acorn grass seeds will keep your farm ahead of the rest!
• Guaranteed & proven to stand the test of time.

Beware: Reseeding is a big investment, and some farmers never think about the actual seed, until it is too late & the grass is not performing. Be very cautious when purchasing grass seed. Price is important, but 5euro over ten year is irrelevant.

Some sellers are offering varieties that are not on the Irish recommended list. If a variety is not on the list, there is a good reason for it. It is not suitable for our country and should not be sown.

Compare the various catalogues in circulation for yourself!

Look at Farmers Journal issue from March 31^st and also our enclosed leaflet which contains the recommended lists.

We assure you that Acorn Grass seed are the best available 

We are very fortunate to have access to two of the best varieties our country has seen in years. These two varieties are Drumbo & Tyrella. Tyrella has a spring growth of 129%.

These varieties are expertly blended into the Acorn mixtures along with other top varieties, to bring you superb mixture. Drumbo is not part of the Acorn mixtures, but we have access to the variety. Given that grass seed will be scarce this year, these mixtures will be in high demand, which means that you must order ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Lamb rearing products available in Grennans include: