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Farmers can now genotype all their Holstein Friesian female calves which will allow them to make a more informed decision around breeding and culling potential replacements. This service could cost herd-owners as little as €22/head which a study has shown represents a four to one return on investment! (more…)

The Gigginstown Angus herd owned by well-known business man Michael O’Leary & managed by Joe O’Mahony used the ‘ICBF Stockbull finder’ to locate the top rated Angus bull on replacement index ‘Carrigroe Nelson‘ (more…)

The Irish Grassland Association held its annual beef conference on Thursday 24^th May. The conference was held in the Clanard Court Hotel, Athy, Co. Kildare (more…)

WHPR (Whole Herd Performance Recording) is the ICBF on-farm program for recording weights and traits on pedigree animals. It involves the weighing of all pedigree animals in a herd (except heavy in calf cows), once a year. (more…)

ICBF and the programme partners, have recently launched the exciting new Gene Ireland panel of high replacement index beef bulls for Summer 2018. Building on the success of previous programmes, these bulls have been selected on their potential to deliver in two key areas. (more…)

ICBF recently had the opportunity to discuss the many positive outcomes from implementation of the Beef Data and Genomics Program (BDGP) to the Dail Agricultural Affairs committee. The submitted material, including supporting slides presented on the day are attached below. (more…)

ICBF has recently published the May 2018 beef evaluations. This has seen the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. The Animal Search, Active Bull Lists, Stock Bull Finder, sales catalogues and all online profiles have now been updated with the new evaluation figures. (more…)