Dairy
Dairy tip of the month: Recording mastitis cases by text
When it comes to tracking udder health performance, or investigating a herd problem, Animal Health Ireland (AHI) reminds farmers that...
Dairy
When it comes to tracking udder health performance, or investigating a herd problem, Animal Health Ireland (AHI) reminds farmers that...
Dairy
Dairy births are up almost 30,000 to date on the same period in 2015, according to latest registration figures from...
Beef
Atresia or waterbelly, is a genetic defect found in many mammals, and has been called a silent killer of new-born...
Dairy
Dairy farmers who are not milk recording their herds could be missing out on €184 higher output per cow, according...
Beef
ICBF has announced the details of the 17 bulls available through AI this year, as part of the Gene Ireland...
Beef
Now that calving has started on many farms around the country, the ICBF is calling on farmers to register calves...
Beef
Dairy and beef farmers are moving away from autumn-calving to spring-calving systems, according to ICBF’s Tom Neville. Recent figures from ICBF...
Beef
The total number of calves registered by Irish farmers in 2015 has increased by 6% compared to the same period...
Beef
The Top 200 herds for EBI have been revealed and there’s no major changes with the top five herds remaining...
Beef
All bulls in the Autumn 2015 Gene Ireland Beef bull catalogue now have either a four and five star rating, according...
Beef
Beef sire searches on the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) website for year to December 21, are in excess of...
Beef
Payments to farmers under the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) for 2015 will issue to farmers as soon as...
Beef
Letters are currently issuing to all participants in the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) urging them to submit all...
Beef
The health of both the national beef and dairy herds will be the most limiting factor to their future production...
Dairy
Both dairy and beef calf registrations have dropped in the months of October and November of this year, figures from...
Beef
There has been an increased farmer focus on the replacement Index and the values that bulls poses for the new...
Beef
As part of the Gene Ireland Maternal Programme, ICBF is now selling nine high index beef bulls that have fulfilled...
Beef
The main aim of the new suckler scheme is to produce a more balanced national beef herd, according to ICBF’s...