Beef
NI calf registrations drop 5.5% in first half of 2024
Calf registrations in Northern Ireland (NI) have fallen by 5.5% in the first half of 2024, according to data from...
Calf Registerations
Beef
Over 41,500 fewer calves registered to date this year
Latest calving statistics from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) show that there have been over 41,500 fewer calves registered...
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Beef
Calf registrations exceed 1.8m to date in 2024 - ICBF
The number of calf registrations so far this year has now exceeded 1.8 million, according to latest available statistics from...
Beef
1m more dairy-bred calves born than suckler this year
The latest calf registration figures from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) shows that there have been almost one million...
Beef
Less than 1 in 5 calves born to suckler-bred cows this spring
Less than one in every five calves that have been registered to date this year have been registered to suckler-bred...
Dairy Technical
Calf registrations head towards 1.4m for year-to-date
The total number of calf registrations on Irish farms has reached 1,349,492 head for the year-to-date based on the latest...
Beef
Over 1.2 million calves registered to date this year
Latest figures from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF) live statistics show that there have been over 1.2 million calves...
Dairy Technical
Calf registrations approach the €1m mark for 2024
The total number of calf registrations up until March 8, 2024 has reached 874,561 head, based on data from the...
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Dairy Technical
Calf registrations rise to over 700,000 head to date
Calf registrations for 2024 have reached 707,825 head, with 112,150 calves being registered in the last week. The data from...
Dairy Technical
Calf registrations surplus 300,000 for 2024
Calf registrations have now reached 314,424 head for 2024, with 96,628 registered in the last week based on Irish Cattle...
Dairy News
12.5-day turnaround on genotyping programme samples
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) says that on average, it is taking 12.5 days from birth to receiving the...
Dairy News
Calf registrations and artificial inseminations show decline
Calf registrations and artificial insemination data figures are showing a significant drop for the first few weeks of 2024. Although...
Dairy Technical
Calf registrations down over 40,000 in 2023
Data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) shows that up until December 29, 2023, there were 41,979 less calf...
Dairy
Calving season kicks off as registrations double in a week
The total number of calves registered in 2023 has doubled in a week, signalling the start of the 2023 calving...
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Dairy
Calf registrations approach one million mark
As St. Patricks day approaches, so does the one million mark for calf registrations. Currently calf registrations are 44,166 ahead of...
Dairy
Calf births reach a third of a million
The spring 2021 calving season has now passed the third of a million mark with 359,657 registered calf births, an...
Dairy
Number of registered calf births doubles in 7 days
In the space of seven days, the number of registered calf births have increased from 52,403 to 105,621, indicating that the...
N.Ireland
Popularity of Angus and Hereford sires rise in Northern dairy herds - LMC
There was over 80,000 beef sired calves registered in Northern Ireland from dairy dams during the first 10 months of...