Beef
Beef breed societies meet to discuss concerns
A number of Ireland’s pedigree beef breed societies met this week to discuss concerns relating to the direction that the...
Beef
A number of Ireland’s pedigree beef breed societies met this week to discuss concerns relating to the direction that the...
Beef
Farmers who intend to breed their own replacement heifers to meet the female requirement under the Beef Data and Genomics...
CAP / Schemes
Suckler farming is at a “crucial turning point” with current productivity gains all moving in the right direction, the Irish...
Dairy
A software glitch detected by the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) momentarily “rocked farmer confidence” in genetic evaluations, Sean Coughlan,...
Beef
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) ended 2017 with a small financial surplus after enduring a challenging year in terms...
Beef
Euro-Star Indexes should not be linked to a scheme such as the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP), according to the...
Beef
This evening (Tuesday, May 22) the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) was discussed at length during a meeting of...
Beef
Some 130,000 Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) tissue tag samples have been returned to date the Irish Cattle Breeding...
Beef
If suckler beef was marketed as a “premium product” the sector wouldn’t be “forced to beg” the Government for the...
Beef
Concerns over the suckler herd’s survival and the efficacy of the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) will be raised...
Beef
Flexibility around the terms of the Beef Data Genomics Programme (BDGP) – in recognition of the extreme difficulties posed by...
Beef
The ongoing delay in issuing genomic tags to participants in the Beef Data Genomics Programme (BDGP) is unacceptable, according to...
Beef
The Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) needs to be examined for fear that it will create a “substantially maternal herd“,...
Beef
Close to 7,000 genomic samples are outstanding under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP), according to the Minister for...
Beef
The demise of the national suckler cow herd was the basis of a meeting recently organised by the Irish Farm-Family...
Beef
Over 3.7 million individual hits were recorded on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) animal search facility in 2017. The animal...
Beef
Payments totalling €37 million have commenced to 21,000 farmers under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP). News of the...
Beef
Some participants in both strands of the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) have yet to complete their carbon navigator requirements...