News

The Autumn 2015 Gene Ireland Beef bulls have seen an increase to their €uro values and reliability (more…)

The ICBF bull search facility has had over 2.25 million individual hits for the year to date. This is an incredible statistic and shows just how much dairy and beef farmers, including people from the breeding industry value the bull search. (more…)

If you only make one New Year’s resolution, make it HerdPlus! Don’t think of HerdPlus membership as a luxury that you can’t afford next year…… you can’t afford to be without it! (more…)

Pouring Money Down the Drain?
Farmers that don’t record dry offs do not receive an accurate Annual Report for their herd or valid lactations for their animals that have paid for. (more…)

In last weeks Farmers Journal article, the makeup of the beef Euro-Star Index was explained in detail. In this weeks article, What is Data Reliability?, we try to explain what the Reliability figure is and how it can affect the Euro-Star Index. (more…)

Health and disease recording by farmers has increasingly become an important part of ICBF. While in the past we recorded mastitis and lameness many of the other health events were not factored in. That is all changing. (more…)

The latest list of top 200 herds based of EBI has seen no change at the top with the top three herds holding their position following the latest evaluation.  (more…)