Beef
Total calf registrations to date this year have declined by over 56,000 head, according to the...
A total of 70% of the calves born in 2024 in Ireland were sired by a beef-breed bull with the remaining 30% of calves sired by a dairy bull.
Dairy
Data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) shows that up until December 27, 2024, there were 56,622 less calf registrations...
Almost 600,000 (595,203) suckler-bred calves have been registered as of August 16 this year, according to latest figures from the ICBF.
Latest calving statistics from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) show that as of Friday, July 12, number of suckler calf births...
The number of calves registered in Ireland to date this year has fallen by over 34,500 head, according to the latest figures from...
Dairy Technical
The total number of calf registrations on Irish farms has reached 1,349,492 head for the...
The total number of calf registrations on Irish farms has surpassed the two-million mark for 2023, based on ICBF data.
Dairy News
Based on figures released by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, 65% of the calves born in 2022 were born to dairy dams.
Latest figures from the ICBF show that over 1.1 million Irish calves have been born in the first 11 weeks of this year.
The latest data from ICBF shows that calf registrations have fallen behind, when compared to the same period in 2021.
The number of calf births took a big jump last week with 98,664 calves registered based on the latest figures from ICBF.
Last week saw a major increase in calf registrations, with the number of registered calves doubling for the year to date.
Spring-calving herds have begun their breeding season. We are now edging closer to the two million mark for calf registrations.
Disbudding is the removal of an area of skin including the horn bud in a young calf prior to solid attachment of the horn bud to the skull.
Currently calf registration are 44,166 ahead of last year's figure, with a total of 996,574 calves registered since the start of 2021.
March and into early April is commonly the time when any calf health issues occur on farms as housing facilities come under pressure.
Dairy calf exports are significantly ahead this year in comparison to the same period as last year, according to Bord Bia figures.
The half a million mark has been broken, with a total of 536,278 calves being registered since the beginning of the year.
Agri-Business
A rather large arrival was delivered on a farm in south-west Scotland last week when a cow went into labour on Meinside Farm.
Growing dairy cow numbers and the fall in beef births has almost evened out total calf births for 2019 versus 2018.
A total of 1.7 million dairy and beef calves have been registered so far this year, figures from ICBF show.
Just over 2.19 million calf births have been registered to beef and dairy dams so far this year, figures from the ICBF show.
