Latest Euro-Star Reports Now Online
The latest HerdPlus Euro-Star reports have been generated and are now available online. (more…)
Stockbull Finder records record number of visitors
The ICBF Stockbull Finder has recorded huge usage in the past week as farmers look for a new Stockbull online. Over 2,800 unique users clicked onto the ICBF Bull Finder application (21st – 26th) March. (more…)
Age of First Calving – How low can you go?
A beef heifer’s natural ability to mature quickly, show heat and go in calf will undoubtedly influence how profitable she will be in an Irish Suckler herd. This natural ability (or not) to be able to calve down at 24 months of age, amongst other things, is influenced by genetics.
37 new bulls make ‘Dairy Active Bull List’ for the first time
ICBF has today published the March 2020 genetic evaluations. This has seen the EBI & Euro-Star indexes for all cows, heifers, stock bulls and AI bulls updated. The Animal Search, Active Bull Lists, Stock Bull Finder, sales catalogues and all online profiles have now been updated with the new evaluation figures.
Genetic Evaluations to go live Tomorrow 24th March
The March 2020 evaluation figures will be available for all dairy and beef animals tomorrow, March 24th. The ICBF Animal Search, Active Bull Lists and Stock Bull Finder will all be updated. (more…)
Calving Difficulty Ready Reckoner (All Breeds)
The 2020 Genetic Evaluations seen a lot of change for farmers. One such change was to the calving evaluations. (more…)
Weaning Performance Reports issued to BEEP herds
ICBF has recently issued ‘Weaning Performance Reports’ to all herds that participated in the Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) in 2019. Farmers weighed suckler calves and their dams and submitted the data to ICBF as part of the pilot. These reports have been generated on the back of this weight data. (more…)
BEEP – worth its weight in gold
Pat Donnellan, ICBF talks through some of the reasons why BEEP is worth its weight in gold.
‘Getting them all in to weigh will be some dose, are you home this weekend to help?’, ‘Well, have a guess, what weight do you think she is?’, ‘I can’t believe how heavy he is!’. All of these and many more like them could be heard on suckler farms (more…)
May Evaluation Deadline- Deadline for all genotypes samples is 11th March.
The May Evaluation will be published on 26th May. The final date to have any DNA samples (hair/tissue/AI straws returned to ICBF in order to have genomic evaluation published in May, is 11th March. (more…)
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