Six of the current top ten Irish bred AI bulls on the ICBF Active Bull List were tested through the Gene Ireland Maternal Beef Programme (Table 1). This is testament to the effectiveness of the programme (more…)
Border Brave (BOA) was a Charolais bull that was born on the 15th of June 1986 . He was bred by B.O’Reilly, Tierworker, Kells, Co.Meath and his semen was marketed by Munster AI. (more…)
Check out this Video of progeny from AJY at ICBF’s Tully Test Centre. This animal was bred by L. Whelan, Co. Laois and is videoed here at 16 months of age.
The three pillars of sustainable agriculture are Economic, Social and Environmental and in that context, breeding plays a major role in all three pillars. In Ireland we use the Economic Breeding Index (EBI), which is a single figure profit index (more…)
Beef Gene Ireland is the name of Irelands national Beef AI Sire progeny test program. Semen from young Beef AI Sires is distributed to herds and the resulting calves are ‘tested’ for various traits (more…)
On Wednesday, a group from NCBC in the UK visited the ICBF Tully Test Centre this week. They also visited Keltic Limousin herd owned by Teleri Thomas and Mac Murphy (more…)
ICBF was present at the Beef 2018 open day held at Teagasc, Grange. It is estimated that 8,000 people attended the event. There were four main stands, outlining key performance indicators in the suckler-to-beef system, dairy calf to beef, animal genetics and grassland management. (more…)
