Beef
Irish Charolais Cattle Society steps into the ring with ICBF
This evening (Tuesday, May 22) the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) was discussed at length during a meeting of...
Beef
This evening (Tuesday, May 22) the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) was discussed at length during a meeting of...
Beef
Some 130,000 Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) tissue tag samples have been returned to date the Irish Cattle Breeding...
Beef
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has released a county-by-county breakdown of the beef cow population figures to determine which...
Dairy
The national dairy cow population has seen a hefty increase in recent years, according to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation...
Dairy
Some 200 dairy herds have enrolled to partake in a sexed semen trial this spring, the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s...
Beef
The recent decreasing trend in beef calf registrations has continued, according to the latest figures released by the Irish Cattle...
Dairy
Breeding is just around the corner for many dairy farmers and the ICBF’s (Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s) Paschal Coughlan offered...
Dairy
A major sexed semen field trial is set to get underway on Irish dairy farms this spring. ICBF (Irish Cattle...
Beef
The number of calves registered to beef cows – suckler calf registrations in other words – has plummeted to a...
Dairy
There has been a marked increase in the number of calves registered to dairy cows this year, new figures show....
Beef
The Gene Ireland Maternal Beef Breeding Programme was launched in autumn 2012 and was established by the ICBF (Irish Cattle...
Dairy
Some 332,962 calves have been registered to dairy cows thus far this year, recent figures from the Irish Cattle Breeding...
Beef
As part of the Gene Ireland Programme, the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) slaughtered 18 heifers at Slaney Foods recently....
Beef
The Gene Ireland Maternal Beef Breeding Programme was launched in autumn 2012 and was established by the ICBF (Irish Cattle...
Dairy
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) is set to substantially increase the Dairy/Dual HerdPlus membership fees, with the introduction of...
Beef
In 2017, there were around 3.15 million individual searches for sires recorded on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) animal search...
Beef
Over 3.7 million individual hits were recorded on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF’s) animal search facility in 2017. The animal...
Dairy
The advice offered to farmers when it comes to selecting genomic bulls to breed the next generation of replacements is...