Sire Trends in the Irish Dairy Herd 2018-2023
There has been a big shift towards dairy farmers opting to use beef in the dairy herd from the start of…
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…
We are now at the peak in terms of NGP samples received in the lab at week 9. Close to 218,000…
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 7 of 2024 and the National Genotyping Programme (NGP) is progressing well. As of today, 13th…
G€N€ IR€LAND® is the name of the national dairy breeding programme in Ireland and it forms an extremely important part of…
The 2023 end of year Co-op Performance Reports containing the latest co-op data are now available online and are being posted to farmers over the coming week. These reports include the calving information taken from the 2023 Dairy Calving Report.