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20 Years of Collaboration
ICBF leads industry collaboration to advance sustainable farming by improving genetic gain in the national herd and providing collaborative, data driven AgTech solutions
ICBF Database in Numbers
There are over 2M Genotypes in the national database and counting. ICBF is the largest Beef Genomics database in the world.
That’s ‘Billion’ with a ‘B’ (Over 80 times the population of China). SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation between animals.
There are over 1 Billion pieces of phenotypic (non genomic) data stored on the ICBF database.
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ICBF on Mobile
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Access the ICBF HerdPlus service via our new, user friendly app
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Search for EBI and €uro-Star figures on the animals in the ICBF Database
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Record live weights for your cattle on to the ICBF database from your phone.
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