New Year, New Me! – 5 things for every beef farmer to consider in 2022
Thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? Here are 5 achievable tasks that every beef farmer should consider setting themselves for 2022. (more…)
Thinking about your New Year’s resolutions? Here are 5 achievable tasks that every beef farmer should consider setting themselves for 2022. (more…)
At last week’s Teagasc Virtual Beef Conference, the new Commercial Beef Value was launched. This new selection tool for farmers with non breeding herds will have particular relevance to herds that are purchasing animals to bring to finish. (more…)
ICBF has commenced a series of online beef discussion groups this week which are running in conjunction with Teagasc. These two hour meetings are taking place with Teagasc advisors from across the country and their respective discussion groups. (more…)
The March 2022 Evaluation will be published on 22nd March. The final date to have any DNA samples (hair/tissue/AI straws returned to ICBF to have genomic evaluation published in March 2022, is December 29th 2021. (more…)
The Commercial Beef Value (CBV) is a new tool for non-breeding beef farmers which will give them a better insight into an animal’s genetic merit. It comprises five traits from the Terminal Index that are important to a non-breeding drystock enterprise (more…)
The National dairy and beef cattle population continues to increase in recent years. (more…)
This year we are offering an additional 6 months HerdPlus membership FREE for new customers and existing customers who switch their…
ICBF published the latest beef evaluations of 2021 earlier this week. This has seen the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. (more…)
We would like to remind BDGP farmers to return any outstanding genotype samples , Carbon Navigators and BDGP animal data recording…