Replacement Beef Heifers are sourced by Irish Suckler farmers in many different ways . With the BDGP scheme there has never been as much focus in this area. Every suckler farmer has his/her own story as to how they source theirs, ICBF would like to capture as many of these stories as possible.
We are delighted to introduce our new ‘Animal Search’ facility which now allows ICBF users to search for females in HerdPlus/BDGP herds. (more…)
Farmers participating in the BDGP will be applying genomics tissue tags to animals over the coming weeks. (more…)
ICBF and the programme partners are now selling 9 G€N€ IR€LAND AI bulls that have met their target semen requirement. These bulls have been primarily selected based on their replacement index. (more…)
We are continuing to update our data recording screens and the new birth data recording screen is now live. (more…)
ICBF and the programme partners are now selling 9 G€N€ IR€LAND AI bulls that have met their target semen requirement. (more…)
Analysis of cow performance in herds participating in the recently concluded Phase 2 of the Teagasc, Irish Farmer's Journal BETTER Farm…
In 2013 ICBF expanded the number of health traits farmers could record online and encouraged all HerdPlus members to record data on ICBF or allow data from their farm software to be transferred to ICBF. This call was put out to help ICBF work towards an overall health robustness trait for breeding healthier animals. (more…)
