A high Euro-Star beef replacement heifer sale was held on Tuesday 2nd December at Mayo-Sligo mart Ballina. The sale was organised by the Teagasc Mayo drystock advisors in conjunction with Mayo-Sligo Mart, ICBF and the Irish Farmer’s Journal. (more…)
At the recent Genomics conference in Swords, Co Dublin, Dr. Francis Kearney presented a paper on the Application of Genomic Selection in Dairy Cattle in Ireland. (more…)
ICBF, Teagasc & the Irish Farmers Journal will be hosting a Dairy & Beef genomics user conference, for the Irish cattle breeding industry on Wed. Nov. 26th from 1.45pm to 5.15pm. (more…)
Curious about Somatic Cell Counts and what they mean? ICBF teamed up with AHI to bring you a short question and answer section all about SCCs.
Find out just how important it now is to have good Euro-Star figures when you are selling a pedigree beef bull in Ireland.
The following article shows how using Euro-Stars to select suckler cows is better than just selecting cows on breed type alone. (more…)
Having spent almost 3 years at the top of the EBI herd listing, Liam O’Leary, Conna has slipped to second place, having been passed by Patrick Flynn, Kilworth, who jumped 13 places to secure the No.1 spot for the first time.
