Roscrea Mart will host a sale for BDGP eligible females this Friday 18th September. The sale starts at 3pm and there are over 200 entries so far, with replacement indexes up to €196! All heifers meet the BDGP eligibility criteria as well as being sire verified. (more…)
ICBF and the programme partners, have recently launched the exciting new Gene Ireland panel of high replacement index beef bulls for Autumn 2020. (more…)
Limousin WHPR Breeder – Doreen Corridan, Roundhill, Fedamore, Co.Limerick As a breeder, I welcome the WHPR (Whole Herd Performance Recording) system…
The latest BDGP Eligibility report can now be viewed online by BDGP participants. Check out your latest report today by logging into your ICBF account and selecting ‘Reports’ – ‘BDGP Eligibility’.
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Irish Farmers Journal Adam Woods recently caught up with Dr. Stephen Conroy during Virtual Beef Week at the Gene Ireland Progeny Test Centre in Tully to discuss just what is recorded on site including feed intake, methane and meat quality data. (more…)
The August 2020 evaluation figures are now available for all dairy and beef animals. The ICBF Animal Search, Active Bull Lists and Stock Bull Finder have all been updated. (more…)
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has agreed to allow the November 2020 evaluation be included for the purposes of BDGP eligibility. Originally, the September evaluation was to be the final one before the 31st Oct BDGP deadline. (more…)
ICBF has just released an update to the Euro-Star details on mart screens for beef females. With the deadline for BDGP on 31st Oct in mind, ICBF is now defining whether the female will be eligible for BDGP if purchased. This removes the need for the purchaser to worry about date of birth, star rating and genomic status. (more…)
647,698 beef calves (beef sire x beef dam) were born on Irish farms in the first 6 months of 2020. Of these, 109,840 are registered to beef AI sires. This represents approximately 17% of all beef calves born. 55% of the calves were registered to a Stockbull with 27% approximately having no sire recorded.