Beef
Minister urged to intervene in controversy over ICBF indexes
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, is being urged to intervene in the controversy surrounding changes to beef...
Beef
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, is being urged to intervene in the controversy surrounding changes to beef...
Beef Technical
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has released data which outlines the top 10 artificial insemination (AI) beef sires for...
Beef
The Irish Beef and Lamb Association (IBLA) has said there “now appears to be more questions than answers” on the...
Beef News
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has confirmed that the beef stakeholder group is due to meet again later this...
Beef News
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is to host a meeting of the beef industry stakeholder forum next week to...
Beef News
A member of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine is calling on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation...
Beef News
The chief executive of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) Sean Coughlan has admitted that communication with farmers around changes...
Beef News
Representatives from beef breed societies have voiced their anger about a lack of consultation in advance of beef breeding index...
Beef
The five Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) county chairpeople in Connacht have released a joint statement saying that suckler farmers “have...
Beef News
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue believes changes to the beef breeding index will enhance profitability...
Beef
The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association (ICSA) has said that impending changes to the beef breeding indices were decided...
Beef Technical
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has revealed the most popular artificial insemination (AI) beef sires used on the suckler...
Rural Life
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has confirmed that the “breeder’s choice” class for beef heifers will...
Beef
Funding of €250,000 will be put towards the creation of a new competition class at Irish agricultural shows for beef...
Beef
The Gene Ireland Maternal Beef Breeding Programme was launched in autumn 2012 and was established by the ICBF (Irish Cattle...
Beef
The replacement index, and particularly the benefits of five-star cows, has been a topic of debate in recent weeks with...
Beef
Calving heifers down at 24 months makes commercial sense and is critical to suckler farming success, Agricultural Consultant Ian Kenny has...
Beef
Herd reports for the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) are expected to arrive in the post in the coming...