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Table 13: Total numbers of beef sired calves out of the beef herd.

Table 13 summary

  • Limousin is the number one breed of sire in Irish suckler herds – siring 37% (346,916) of all beef calves born in 2015 (Graph 15).
  • Charolais follows very closely with 345,570 calves sired by Charolais bulls in 2015.
Graph 16: Proportion of Beef sired calves out of beef cows in 2015.
Limousin AI Sire ‘Hauteclair’ (HCA) – he sired the most calves (9763) out of beef cows in Ireland in 2015.
Table 14: Trend in Beef sired calves from the Beef herd (2013-2015).
Graph 17: Trend in Beef sired calves from the Beef herd (2013-2015).

Limousin is the number 1 breed of beef sire in Irish beef herds – siring 37% of all beef calves born in 2015.

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