The breeding season is drawing to a close on most spring-calving Irish dairy farms, with artificial insemination (AI) stopping and...
July 24, 2021
The economic breeding Index (EBI), launched in 2001, was developed as a way for Irish dairy farmers to determine the...
June 16, 2021
Recent months have seen a number of farming organisations call for the introduction of bespoke suckler cow support payments. However,...
June 3, 2021
The Economic Breeding Index (EBI) is a measure of the genetic potential of an animal. Research by Teagasc was undertaken...
May 10, 2021
Although Irish dairy farmers are reportedly the most environmentally sustainable food producers in the world, agriculture accounts for 35% of...
April 5, 2021
On the recent the Dairy Edge podcast, Emma-Louise Coffey was joined by Dr. Joe Patton, a dairy specialist with Teagasc and Kevin...
March 25, 2021
The latest Progressive Genetics dairy catalogue “Dairy Sires 2021” has just gone to print, the AI firm has confirmed. The...
February 5, 2021
Economic modelling has confirmed that farmers operating a highly stocked, low concentrate milking system would be highly impacted by a...
January 18, 2021
Economic Breeding Index (EBI) can be used as an effective herd management tool across all dairy production scenarios, according to...
January 15, 2021
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has implemented a change in how genomics is blended with parental average to calculate...
October 6, 2020
At this stage, dairy farmers will be deciding on or, in some cases, will have chosen what bulls they are...
April 29, 2020
New dairy breeding guidelines, focused on improving the genetic merit of all calves from the dairy herd – both dairy...
March 26, 2020
One technology, which is brought up time and time again as a way of improving efficiency, improving profitability and lowering...
February 24, 2020
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) board has approved the implementation of changes to the dairy Economic Breeding Index (EBI)...
January 20, 2020
New changes are set to be made to both the dairy Economic Breeding Index (EBI) and the calving difficulty evaluation....
January 10, 2020
A new carbon sub-index is set to be introduced to the Economic Breeding Index (EBI) in the near future. Some...
January 9, 2020
Although Irish dairy farmers are the most environmentally sustainable food producers in the world, agriculture accounts for 33% of our...
December 13, 2019
“Some farmers are of the opinion that the EBI is a spring-calving breeding index, but this is not the case.”...
September 15, 2019
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