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Brian Wickham Travel Bursary Competition

ICBF and Sheep Ireland are delighted to announce a unique opportunity for postgraduate students and early career scientists to win the Brian Wickham travel bursary prize to attend the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock (WCGALP).

Beef Gene Ireland - Spring 2022

ICBF and the program partners, have recently launched the exciting new Gene Ireland panel of high index beef bulls for Spring 2022. The breeding program is a joint initiative between Pedigree Breeders, Commercial farmers, Breed Societies, AI Companies, DAFM & ICBF.

Has your dairy herd improved over the last 5 years?

The latest 5 Year Trend Report is now available for all HerdPlus Dairy farmers. This new report allows you to assess the genetic gain and breeding performance of your dairy herd over the last five years on the Economic Breeding Index (EBI) and six other Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) listed below.

Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)

Click here for more details on the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme

CATTLE WEIGHING SCALES RENTAL SERVICE

Click here for more information on cattle weighing services.

ICBF Database in Numbers

Genotypes
1 Million

There are over 6.1M Genotypes in the national database and counting. ICBF is the largest Beef Genomics database in the world.

SNPs
1 Billion

That’s ‘Billion’ with a ‘B’ (Over 218 times the population of China). SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation between animals.

Pieces of Data
1 Billion

There are over 2 Billion pieces of phenotypic (non genomic) data stored on the ICBF database. 

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