ICBF’s Kevin Downing is joined by Professor Donagh Berry, head of quantitative genetics at Teagasc and Dr. Ross Evans who manages the genetics team within ICBF to discuss some of the challenges and changes coming around dairy genomics. (more…)
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has agreed to allow the November 2020 evaluation be included for the purposes of BDGP eligibility. Originally, the September evaluation was to be the final one before the 31st Oct BDGP deadline. (more…)
ICBF has just released an update to the Euro-Star details on mart screens for beef females. With the deadline for BDGP on 31st Oct in mind, ICBF is now defining whether the female will be eligible for BDGP if purchased. This removes the need for the purchaser to worry about date of birth, star rating and genomic status. (more…)
647,698 beef calves (beef sire x beef dam) were born on Irish farms in the first 6 months of 2020. Of these, 109,840 are registered to beef AI sires. This represents approximately 17% of all beef calves born. 55% of the calves were registered to a Stockbull with 27% approximately having no sire recorded.
Farming is undoubtedly one of the best jobs in the world, it is disappointing that it still ranks as one of the most dangerous jobs and this is really and truly something, we as farmers need to change. (more…)
2020 has again seen an increase in the use of dairy AI. Dairy on dairy inseminations are up 7.9% in the first half of the year with beef on dairy inseminations also up some 2.7%. (more…)
Beef HerdPlus is ICBF’s information service which uses data from a variety of sources including animal events data, carcass data, genomic data, weight data and so on. (more…)
The following is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) in relation to the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme – Sucklers (BEEP-S) (more…)