News

Following last week’s release of the HerdPlus® Dairy Calving reports, ICBF can report an improvement in the fertility performance of the national dairy herd. (more…)

ICBF will be present at the National Ploughing Championships this year as part of the Irish Farmers Journal / ICBF / Bord Bia Livestock Demonstration and the Department of Agriculture, (more…)

The Tully Progeny Test Centre is located in Kildare town, County Kildare. The centre currently runs a 120 day performance test for heifer and steer progeny off AI sires and a 90 day performance test for the bulls. (more…)

Domestic AI usage has been increasing rapidly over the past number of years but which sires have been the most heavily used in 2017? The following tables contain statistics on the most popular AI Bulls in 2017 for Dairy, Beef and Dairy Beef. (more…)

The latest bull proofs are now available to view in excel format in the ‘genetic evaluations section’ of our website.

This evaluation run has seen no change to the top of the list (more…)

ICBF has recently published the September 2018 beef evaluations. This has seen the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. The Animal Search, Active Bull Lists, Stock Bull Finder, sales catalogues and all online profiles have now been updated with the new evaluation figures. (more…)

Tullamore show is the pinnacle event in the calendar for Irish pedigree beef breeders. With most pedigree societies holding their national finals at the show, it is an annual pilgrimage made worthwhile by the chance of coming home with national championship. (more…)

Lisnagre Handsome (HZJ) has a replacement index of €34 @ 75% reliability and a terminal index of €150 @ 92% reliability on his latest genomic proof (May 2018). He is 5 stars for carcass weight and 5 stars for carcass confirmation (more…)

Gene Ireland in action

One of the highest profile graduates of the Gene Ireland programme in recent years is the Limousin bull Castleview Gazelle, more commonly known by his AI code ZAG. (more…)