It’s that time of year again; calving is beginning or has begun on many farms around Ireland. Two years ago we introduced defect recording online to all farmers (more…)
The RDS “Champion of Champions” awards are a set of prestigious awards presented annually by The Royal Dublin Society. (more…)
The Top 200 herds for EBI have been revealed. This run has seen no major changes at the top with the top 5 herds remaining the same as the previous run. (more…)
The Autumn 2015 Gene Ireland Beef bulls have seen an increase to their €uro values and reliability (more…)
The ICBF bull search facility has had over 2.25 million individual hits for the year to date. This is an incredible statistic and shows just how much dairy and beef farmers, including people from the breeding industry value the bull search. (more…)
If you only make one New Year’s resolution, make it HerdPlus! Don’t think of HerdPlus membership as a luxury that you can’t afford next year…… you can’t afford to be without it! (more…)
Look no further! – Click below for the Beef Gene Ireland Catalogue – Autumn 2015 where you will find a wide selection of 5 Star young AI Bulls that were specially selected because of their high €uro-Star ratings for the ‘Replacement Index’.
Pouring Money Down the Drain?
Farmers that don’t record dry offs do not receive an accurate Annual Report for their herd or valid lactations for their animals that have paid for. (more…)
In last weeks Farmers Journal article, the makeup of the beef Euro-Star Index was explained in detail. In this weeks article, What is Data Reliability?, we try to explain what the Reliability figure is and how it can affect the Euro-Star Index. (more…)