Maximise the genetic gain of your herd with Sire Advice this breeding season
With the upcoming breeding season almost upon us, it is time to start thinking about your 2024 bull selection. In 2023,…
With the upcoming breeding season almost upon us, it is time to start thinking about your 2024 bull selection. In 2023,…
The ICBF Nitrates Band screen is now available to ALL dairy farmers on ICBF for their 2024 online submissions. The screen…
There has been a big shift towards dairy farmers opting to use beef in the dairy herd from the start of…
The recently published calving statistics for 2023 (see Table 1) show the bull (IG) Knockenright Chessman at the top of the…
Week 10 of 2024 saw over 58,000 samples received in the lab and more than 69,000 samples processed. The average turnaround…
There are now over 444 herds signed-up to the Dairy Gene Ireland Programme taking a total of 17,431 straws ordered to…
The second half of 2023 saw, 157,847 suckler beef calves (beef sire x beef dam) born on Irish farms, of which…
What is the CBV? The CBV is a tool that gives farmers an insight into the genetic value of animals destined…
We are now in week 8 of 2024 and the National Genotyping Programme (NGP) with over 127,000 animal passports issued via…