Milk Recording Current Profile
We have improved the existing Current Milk Recording Profile to make the data more useful for management decisions. The profile is available to all milk recording herds. (more…)
Introduction of the Test Day Model in Dairy Evaluations
In line with international best practice, Ireland has now moved to applying a Test Day Model (TDM) approach for genetic evaluation of milk production traits, as opposed to the previous approach of predicted 305-day yield. (more…)
Animal Search 2017 – Over 3.7 Million Individual Hits
The ICBF animal search facility has had over 3.7 million individual hits for the year 2017. 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…)
Euro-Star Index Explained
The Euro-Star Index is a breeding index designed to aid beef farmers in the selection of more profitable breeding animals. Euro-Star Indexes quantify the genetic component of an animal’s performance across all traits of importance for Irish suckler farmers. (more…)
New Application – Stockbull Finder
What is the Stockbull Finder?
The ‘Stockbull Finder’ is the new online Bull Sales section on the ICBF website. Only bulls from WHPR herds that have been weighed and scored will be included. (more…)
What is EBI?
EBI is a single figure profit index aimed at helping farmers identify the most profitable bulls and cows for breeding dairy herd replacements. It comprises of information on eight sub-indexes related to profitable milk production. These are; (1) Milk Production, (2) Fertility, (3) Calving Performance, (4) Beef Carcass (5) Carbon, Cow Maintenance (6) Health, (7) Maintenance and (8) Management. A summary of the sub-indexes, including traits and relative weightings for traits in the EBI is displayed in Chart 1, e.g. Fertility has a 25% weighting in the EBI. Economic values in the index are based on data collected from Irish Dairy Farms and the Dairy Industry. These values were last updated in November 2022.
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ICBF Animal Search – Over 2 Million Hits in 2017
The ICBF ‘Animal Search’ facility allows ICBF users to search for male and female animals in HerdPlus/BDGP herds. (more…)
What is HerdPlus?
HerdPlus is ICBF’s information service which provides herd-owners with performance data which can be used to increase on-farm profit.
HerdPlus Launches its new App – Download for FREE
We are delighted to introduce our new ICBF Web Application mobile app. This new app will now allow HerdPlus herd-owners quick access to their HerdPlus accounts.Recording events and viewing animal profiles has never been so easy. (more…)