Over 40 years of breeding in Laois Simmental herd
David Brickley runs the Anatrim Simmental herd in Coolrain, Co. Laois. The herd has been part of the Whole Herd Performance Recording programme since May 2017. (more…)
ICBF meet with the Dail Agricultural Affairs Committee
ICBF recently had the opportunity to discuss the many positive outcomes from implementation of the Beef Data and Genomics Program (BDGP) to the Dail Agricultural Affairs committee. The submitted material, including supporting slides presented on the day are attached below. (more…)
Who’s up and who’s down – May 2018 Beef evaluations
ICBF has recently published the May 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…)
May Evaluations Go Live
The May 2018 evaluation figures are now available for all dairy and beef animals. The ICBF Animal Search, Active Bull Lists and Stock Bull Finder have all been updated. (more…)
Increase in number of Foreign EBVs in Irish Evaluations
A fundamental element to Irish evaluations, both beef and dairy, are the accompanying reliability figures. In order to increase reliability figures, more data is required. (more…)
Stockbull finder an important tool when selling bulls for Cork Angus herd
Ben and Elaine Ryall run the Fellfort Irish Angus herd in Fellfort, Watergrasshill, Co. Cork. The herd has been part of the Whole Herd Performance Recording program since July 2017. (more…)
Excellent Return Rate for 2018 BDGP Tissue Tag Samples
130,000 tissue samples have been returned so far this year by herds participating in the BDGP. In total, just over 300,000 tissue tags have been issued to herds on a phased basis, over the past 6-8 weeks. (more…)
Gene Ireland Focus – Progeny Performance: Knockane Dag (KJG)
Knockane Dag has a terminal index of €122 @ 79% reliability on his latest genomic proof (December 2017). Genomics increased Dag’s reliability by 29% when he was initially genotyped in 2016. (more…)
5 Star Cows Delivering on Weaning Performance
Recent analysis of statistics from the ICBF Weaning Performance Report shows that high Replacement Index (5 star) cows are performing best on key output and maintenance traits such as ‘calf 200-day weight’ and ‘cow liveweight’. (more…)
- Go to the previous page
- 1
- …
- 92
- 93
- 94
- 95
- 96
- 97
- 98
- …
- 141
- Go to the next page