Agri-Business
Teagasc has today (Tuesday, November 4) held a Food Innovation Gateway event, at the Teagasc Food Research Centre, in Moorepark, Co. Cork.
Beef
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.
Dairy
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.
Many dairy farmers minds are beginning to shift towards the breeding season and making the final selection of bulls that they will using in 2023.
Dairy News
A well-known figure in the cattle breeding industry, Arthur Bredin has joined the newly established AI company Bullwise.
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has released data analysing the AI inseminations in the dairy herd for the 2020 breeding season.
A progressive Co. Westmeath dairy farmer said anyone considering milking cows should keep costs low and do the simple things well.
AgriLand caught up with some of the AI companies to see how the 2019 breeding season panned out on farms this year.
The amount of suckler farms in Ireland using AI is low; somewhere in the region of 25% of progeny from the suckler herd are bred from AI.
The use of fresh semen has grown in popularity over the last number of years amongst dairy farmers and AI service providers.
