The Gene Ireland Progeny test centre recently slaughtered 18 heifers at Slaney Foods International, Bunclody, Co. Wexford. The progeny were sired by 10 different AI sires across 6 different breeds. (more…)

The Gene Ireland Progeny test centre recently slaughtered 33 steers at Slaney Foods International, Bunclody, Co. Wexford. The progeny were sired by 18 different AI sires across 8 different breeds. (more…)

ICBF is making a change to the Dairy/Dual HerdPlus membership fees.  This is the first fee increase since the service commenced in 2006 (with an introductory offer of €60 that has lasted 12 years). (more…)

ICBF published the first beef evaluations of 2018 on 10th January. This has seen the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. (more…)

This depends on what the actual Index values of the Bull and the Cow have. A High EBI Bull from the active bull list with an index of €338 and a low EBI Cow with an index of €12 will give you a calf with an index of €175. (more…)

Ireland has now reached over 54,000 genotypes for dairy females. This is a very significant number of female genotypes and would not have been possible without the support of the Irish farmers, herdbooks, AI companies, Teagasc and the DAFM. (more…)

As part of our ongoing improvements to the ICBF dairy genetic/genomic evaluations systems and processes, there will be a number of new developments for 2018. (more…)

New beef Euro-Star evaluations have just been published by ICBF. This will see the Euro-Star indexes for all suckler cows, heifers, stock bull and AI bulls updated. (more…)