Contract rearing involves the movement of replacement heifers from the owner’s farm for rearing on contract by another farmer. Dairy farmers contract out the rearing of their dairy heifers to maximise land on their milking platforms and free up facilities and labour.
Sire Advice is a decision support tool which allows the user to select bulls they wish to use for the breeding…
The Suckler Beef Gene Ireland Panel for Spring 2025 has been launched, and we are excited to offer our customers the…
A steady flow of samples continue to hit the genotyping lab in week 15 of 2025. To date in 2025, 598,990 samples have…
The National Genotyping Programme was introduced in 2023 with the goal of being the first step on the road to having…
Week 14of 2025 saw a slight increase in incoming samples to the Genotyping Lab. To date in 2025, 564,911 samples have been received…
Introduction The EBI details of the top 75 bulls on the dairy active bull list are based on the March 2025…
Content developed in collaboration with Agriland Media as part of the ICBF & Agriland 2025 Commercial Beef Value Series. Video 3,…
Content developed in collaboration with Agriland Media as part of the ICBF & Agriland 2025 Commercial Beef Value Series. Farming approximately…