gurteen college
Education for a sustainable futureThe aim of the dairy enterprise is to achieve
excellence while serving to educate and equip students with the necessary
practical, technical and financial skills of running a profitable dairy business
in accordance with the highest ethical standards. Herd Data as at the end of May
2018 Breed and Number: 210 Pedigree Holstein Friesian expanding to 240 cows 2021
Yield: Target 510kgs milk solids, produced 452kg milk solids 2017 with 4.17%
fat/3.56% protein. Breeding: Average EBI team of bulls 2018 is 241, sweeper
bulls are limousin and angus. Empty rate 2017 was 6% Diet: Self-sufficient for
forage, target 85% grazed grass, target 950 kg concentrate.