Dairy & Dairy Beef Gene Ireland Programme 2025
G€N€ IR€LAND® is the name of the national dairy breeding programme in Ireland and it forms an extremely important part of…
Replacement Index delivering on fertility
5-star cows have the best performance in fertility and calving. A recent study of 145,000 females that calved for the first…
Using the Calving Difficulty trait to Minimize Difficult Calvings
Calving difficulty has been an integral part of the beef EuroStar Index since its inception. The calving difficulty % figure is…
Are you in NGP? Here are some things to consider in advance of the 2025 Calving Season
With the 2025 calving season just around the corner, we are advising all dairy and beef herds who are participating in…
Free Access to Online CBV and Finishing Profiles
ICBF is delighted to announce updates to our services. Now available free of charge are the online Commercial Beef Value (CBV)…
Tools to Enhance Genetic Progress on Irish Farms
When it comes to breeding the next generation of female replacements on Irish dairy farms, it’s important dairy farmers have a…
NEW Commercial Beef Value (CBV) Catalogue feature now available
The new Commercial Beef Value (CBV) Catalogue is now available for eligible animals and is accessible to all HerdPlus members. Farmers…
“How can 2 full siblings have different index figures?”
For the majority of us, we are lucky enough to have brothers and sisters, siblings who we share the same parentage with. Does this mean that we are the exact same as our ‘full brothers’ and ‘full sisters’? (more…)
SCEP herds encouraged to sign up to the National Genotyping Programme
ICBF has reopened applications for the National Genotyping Programme (NGP) for new herds. This will allow an additional one hundred thousand…
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