With the attention on many dairy farms turning to the oncoming breeding season, in the sixth instalment of ‘George goes dairy farming’, George made a stop in the Royal County earlier this year. On a wet and miserable day, he visited the farm of Patrick Martyn in Slane, Co. Meath, who milks a herd of 96 cows under a spring (60) and autumn-calving system (36). Patricks focuses on a profit-driven herd and opts to use 50% Belgian Blue genetics on his cows during the breeding season, with all insemin