Over 32,000 animals displayed on Mart Boards
Since the introduction of the new mart board initiative earlier this year, there have been indexes displayed on over 32,000 animals in 68 locations throughout the country. (more…)
Since the introduction of the new mart board initiative earlier this year, there have been indexes displayed on over 32,000 animals in 68 locations throughout the country. (more…)
The ICBF animal search facility has had over 2.9 million individual hits for the year to date. This is an impressive statistic and shows just how much dairy and beef farmers, including people from the breeding industry value the animal search. (more…)
35% of Beef pedigree calves born in Ireland are sired by Foreign Sires from 11 different countries. The UK and France are the 2 main sources of foreign sires for beef pedigree matings. 49% of Dairy pedigree calves are sired by Foreign Sires from 16 different countries, with the USA and the Netherlands leading the way.
Beef HerdPlus is a tool that can benefit everyone no matter what your breeding goals are. The breeding and performance information that herd-owners receive through Beef HerdPlus includes the following;
The latest bull proofs are now available to view in excel format in the ‘genetic evaluations section’ of our website. (more…)
10 Things To Know About returns with a six-part award, showcasing the weird and wonderful Irish science behind aspects of modern life, from virtual reality to botox and aliens to the Internet of cows. (more…)
The latest stats on Phenotypic (cow’s actual performance) Trends for Fat and Protein have now been released. These figures show the trends for kgs of fat and protein and percentage fat and protein.
From November 2016, as part of an EU wide change, Ireland have changed it’s tag numbering system. These changes now make Irish tag numbers compatible with the Electronic Identification (EID) system. (more…)