Beef
There have been 38,000 fewer calf registrations to date this year, as of Friday, May 16, according to the latest ICBF figures.
Dairy
Calf registrations have reached 1,424,352 head for 2025, with 102,793 calves registered in the past week based on ICBF data...
Calf registrations have reached 842,895 head for 2025, with 158,142 calves registered in the past week based on ICBF data.
Calf registrations in Northern Ireland (NI) have fallen by 5.5% in the first half of 2024, according to data from the NIFAIS.
Latest calving statistics from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) show that there has been over 41,500 fewer calves registered.
The number of calf registrations so far this year has now exceeded 1.8 million, according to latest available statistics from the ICBF.
Calf registration figures from the ICBF shows that there have been almost one million more calves registered to dairy cows than suckler...
Less than one in every five calves that have been registered to date this year have been registered to suckler-bred cows, latest figures...
Dairy Technical
The total number of calf registrations on Irish farms has reached 1,349,492 head for the...
Latest figures from the ICBF's live statistics show that there has been over 1.2 million calves registered...
The total number of calf registrations up until March 8, 2024 has reached 874,561 head, based on data from the ICBF..
Calf registrations for 2024 have reached 707,825 head, with 112,150 calves being registered in the last week...
Calf registrations have now reached 314,424 head for 2024, with 96,628 registered in the last week based on ICBF data.
Dairy News
The ICBF says that on average it is taking 12.5 days from birth to receiving the animal’s passport within the National Genotyping Programme.
Calf registrations and artificial insemination (AI) data is showing a significant drop for the first few weeks of 2024.
Data from the ICBF shows that up until December 29, 2023 there was 41,979 less calf registrations on Irish farms - when compared to 2022.
The total number of calves registered is 2023 has doubled in a week, signalling the start of the 2023 calving season on farms.
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.
Calf registrations for 2021 have now passed the quarter of a million mark with 359,657 calves being registrsted.
Some 53,218 calves have been registered, within the space of seven days, signalling the beginning of the spring-calving period.
N.Ireland
There was over 80,000 beef sired calves registered in Northern Ireland from dairy dams during the first 10 months of 2015.
