The first young bulls of 2017 were slaughtered over the last 10 days at Slaney Foods International, Bunclody, Co. Wexford. The progeny were sired by 41 different AI sires across 8 different breeds. It consisted of eighty-two Jan/Feb/March 2016 born bulls. (more…)
We currently have a vacancy for an Administration & Accounts Assistant. The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is the leading provider of information-based genetics services to the Irish dairy and beef industry (more…)
The first calves from the 2016 Gene Ireland beef bulls are currently being born on farms. Here are some of Slaneymill Jack (AU2155) progeny. (more…)
Last Friday, ICBF invited industry representatives and G€N€ IR€LAND committee members to Tully progeny test centre, Kildare town, Co Kildare to discuss and review the objectives of the G€N€ IR€LAND Beef program. (more…)
Lameness is the latest health event that herd owners can now record through text message. It is also possible to save data to and retrieve data from the ICBF database using text messaging for many other events. (more…)
Last Friday, ICBF invited industry representatives and G€N€ IR€LAND committee members to Tully progeny test centre, Kildare town, Co Kildare to discuss and review the objectives of the G€N€ IR€LAND Beef program. (more…)
The Farm Info Report is a report that is available to farm advisors. This report can display information on farm details, stock details, costs and profits, EBI and PTA data, (more…)
Minister Creed yesterday announced that the original 31st May deadline for completion of meetings and Farm Improvement Plan in Knowledge Transfer Groups will be extended until 31st July, 2017. (more…)
Latest work by Teagasc has indicated that each €1 gain in herd EBI is worth €1.96 in terms of additional net profit per cow per year. (more…)