News

Michael Doran was elected as the new Chairman of the ICBF Board of Directors at a meeting of the ICBF board in Portloaise at the start of the month. (more…)

Friday 29th July marks the official deadline for the submission of all 2015 genotype samples and 2015 calf data as part of the BDGP. There was some confusion following a letter received by BDGP participants recently regarding this deadline.  (more…)

The latest addition to the ICBF presentations page is a presentation on Multi-breed Genomic Evaluations for 1 Million Beef Cattle in Ireland put together by Dr. Andrew Cromie ICBF with the help of other contributors.

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Following the release of the Dairy and Beef AI bull usage lists the 2015 Top Beef AI on Dairy usage list has now been released. This list sees an Angus bull make the top of this list. (more…)

The 2015 Top Beef and Dairy AI bull usage lists have now been released. This list sees a Limousin bull make the top of the Beef list.  (more…)

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…)