2015 Proportion of calvings by month
The 2015 Proportion of calvings by month have now been released. These figures are based on over 1.25 million dairy dams and over 980,000 beef dams. (more…)
The 2015 Proportion of calvings by month have now been released. These figures are based on over 1.25 million dairy dams and over 980,000 beef dams. (more…)
Baffo (BAZ) was a Piedmontese bull that was born on the 12th of February 1997. His semen was marketed by the Irish Piedmontese Society. (more…)
The first calves from the autumn 2015 Gene Ireland beef bulls are currently being born on farms. Here are some of Highfield Odran’s first progeny. (more…)
The first calves from the autumn 2015 Gene Ireland beef bulls are currently being born on farms. (more…)
ICBF and the programme partners are now selling 6 G€N€ IR€LAND AI bulls that have met their target semen requirement. (more…)
The latest bull proofs are now available to view in excel format in the ‘genetic evaluations section’ of our website. (more…)
The IDB SNP chip has been used for nearly all of Ireland’s cattle genotyping and was developed by ICBF and its research collaborators, Teagasc etc., for our farmers to lower the cost of parentage verification and contribute to genetic breeding values. (more…)