ICBF will be present at the Irish Farmer’s Journal Dairy Day next Tuesday 19th November (Stand D16) where we will be taking general queries and discussing our full suite of services with a key focus on selective dry cow therapy, recording dry off dates & the benefits of dairy genomics. (more…)
The National dairy cow population is continually increasing, despite challenging conditions in recent years, namely the fodder crisis and drought of 2018.
There are 4 factors that will both contribute to what ‘Gestation Length’ index figure your bull starts out with and also how it changes over time.1.Backpedigree, 2.Genotype, 3. Foreign Data, 4.Irish Data (more…)
ICBF is delighted to announance that it has been awarded the silver award in the scientific section at this years National Dairy Show Innovation Awards for the new and improved HerdPlus Dairy Sire Advice application.
We are delighted to present you with the latest list of dairy bulls which have been selected for the Dairy Gene Ireland Autumn programme. (more…)
The September 2019 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…)
ICBF will be present at this year’s National Ploughing Championships as part of the live demonstrations at the Irish Farmers Journal stand (Block 2, Row 18, Stand 403). (more…)
In all dairy breeds, at least 22% of their pedigree calf crop in 2018 was sired by 10 bulls. (more…)
