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