Beef
As researchers look to improve the reliability and efficiency of carcass processing, technology is at the forefront of their efforts.
Dairy
We are now in the sixth week of breeding, meaning a lot of farms may be wrapping up with AI and letting stock bulls out to finish the job.
Many farmers will look to begin serving repeating cows in the coming weeks. In order to maximise results, keeping momentum will be key.
According to data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF), 614,527 handheld AI serves were recorded during the month of May.
Coming into the June bank holiday a lot of farmers often stop using dairy AI, and just let the stock bulls clean up the rest.
According to ICBF, the top 75 bulls on the ICBF Dairy Active Bull List are all Irish-bred for the first time in the services history.
You may be considering ordering AI straws in the coming weeks ahead of breeding, but have you checked on your liquid nitrogen tank?
Agri-Business
Walton Institute at South East Technological University (SETU) has secured €100,000 in Enterprise...
Teagasc has today (Tuesday, November 4) held a Food Innovation Gateway event, at the Teagasc Food Research Centre, in Moorepark, Co. Cork.
Outgoing Thurles Mart manager Martin (Murt) Ryan is set to move to a new role with the National Cattle Breeding Centre (NCBC).
Rural Life
A major new centre launched today (Friday, September 19) at University College Dublin (UCD) will...
IFA president, Francie Gorman has called on AI companies to withdraw plans to introduce intellectual property (IP) restrictions on AI bulls
N.Ireland
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been characterised as the most important technological breakthrough in the history of mankind.
The largest operators in the AI sector have said they intend to introduce intellectual property (IP) rights on their high genetic merit bulls
Machinery
The large agricultural machinery manufactures have been getting greatly excited by the prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) and how...
The PSNI are appealing for information following a report o the theft of artificial insemination equipment in Co. Tyrone.
Tech giant Microsoft has launched a series of initiatives to help upskill areas of rural Ireland on the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
Dairy Technical
Planning for the breeding season is now underway on many dairy farms and it is now time to determine how many heifers calves will be needed in 2025.
Over the last number of years there has be a significant push to increase the number and quality of calves leaving the dairy herd and entering dairy-beef systems.
A Co. Mayo farmer who had assumed his cow was having twins, was in for a shock when she gave birth to triplet heifer calves on Halloween night.
Beef Technical
The Irish cattle breeding federation (ICBF) has revealed the most popular AI beef sires used on the suckler herd this year.
Dairy farmer, Marian Collins has been involved in the rearing of 'award winning' Jersey cows on her family farm for almost 50 years
Sexed straws now account for almost 80% of Ai Services (Northern Ireland) Ltd’s semen sales into the dairy sector.
