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In 1998 Irish industry had a vision to increase farm profitability through genetics and data integration. It established ICBF as a non-profit ‘industry good’ organisation to increase the rate of genetic gain in the national herd and to remove duplication in record keeping for both farmers and industry. (more…)

The following is the full report on the 1977/78 performance test results for Blonde d’Aquitaine, Limousin and Simmental pedigree bulls in Tully. The Limousin AI Sire ‘Kilfrush Lance’ (KHL) who stood at the ‘Dublin District Milk Board’ was in this intake. (more…)

ICBF HerdPlus has launched the new 5 Year Trend Report for suckler farmers. This new report allows you to assess the breeding performance of your suckler herd over the last five years (2014 – 2018) on six Key Performance Indicators (more…)

On the 21^st January 2019, ICBF launched two new genetic evaluations for health traits – bovine tuberculosis (TB) and liver fluke resistance. After years of research and development by Teagasc and ICBF, supported by DAFM, these traits will help dairy and beef farmers protect their herd from TB and liver fluke infection. (more…)

The Dairy Beef Index (DBI) is a breeding goal for Irish dairy and beef farmers to promote high quality beef cattle bred from the dairy herd that are more saleable as calves and profitable at slaughter yet, they have minimal consequences on the calving difficulty or gestation length of the dairy cow. (more…)

New beef Euro-Star evaluations have just been published by ICBF. This will see the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. (more…)

Herd-owners can authorise organisations through their online HerdPlus accounts by using the ‘Change Data Permissions Screen’ located under the ‘Admin’ heading. (more…)

The latest proofs (Eurostar and EBI figures) have now been updated and are available to view on every animal in your HerdPlus profiles. All AI bulls have also been updated. (more…)