Beef
Two additional cattle breed societies have expressed no confidence in the revised Euro-star evaluations as the number of...
The Irish Charolais Cattle Society has decided not to print figures or star ratings on catalogues for its society cattle sales this year.
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, is being urged to intervene in the controversy surrounding changes to beef breeding indexes
Beef News
A member of the Joint Committee on Agriculture is calling on the ICBF to suspend its recent re-classification of beef breeding indices.
The ICBF CEO Sean Coughlan has said that if the changes to the beef-breeding indexes were reversed, it would "create even more chaos".
The five IFA Connacht county chairs have released a joint statement saying that suckler farmers "have lost faith" in ICBF, Teagasc, and DAFM.
The CEO of the ICBF has said that he doesn't agree with farmers blindly selecting animals based on their star rating.
The board of the ICBF has decided to reschedule the implementation date of the New Beef Eurostar evaluations.
The ICSA has said that impending changes to the beef breeding indices were decided "without adequate consultation".
Beef Technical
Suckler farmers will see their suckler herds' new evaluations online from Tuesday, November 21, the...
Teagasc and the ICBF is set to host a webinar tonight, Thursday, November 2, focusing on recent changes to the beef breeding index.
According to ICBF, these changes stem from several years of research involving Teagasc and ICBF, arising from industry feedback
The Gene Ireland panel of high-index beef bulls for autumn 2022 has been launched by the ICBF and its programme partners.
Using Thomas O'Connor's 90 cow suckler herd as an example, the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation’s (ICBF) Chris Daly highlighted the difference - across many traits - between the top five high replacement index cows versus the bottom five cows on the maternal index.
The sixth annual maiden suckler heifer sale is set to take place at Ballybay Mart on April 28. The sale will kick off at 11:00am.
Sheep
Sheep Ireland hosted its annual EuroStar Multi-breed Ram Sale in Tullamore Mart on Saturday, August 26.
Ireland's first sale of genotyped four and five star heifers will take place in Ballybay Mart next Saturday.
The flock compromises of 120 Irish Suffolk and Texel ewes, split 50:50 between each breed, and a flock of 30 New Zealand Texel and 30 New Zealand Suffolk ewes.
Sheep Ireland, the sheep equivalent of the ICBF, will roll out across breed indices in 2018, the Programme Lead Eamon Wall has said.
ICBF, through its Gene Ireland Programme, has made AI straws available from some of the countries up and coming bulls.
Farmers will be given the opportunity to buy one of six top rated AI bulls, as the ICBF six Gene Ireland bulls.
Sheep Ireland will hold a special sale of multi-breed rams in Tullamore Mart on Saturday, August 27.
ICBF has announced its latest panel of Gene Ireland bulls, consisting of 14 high index bulls from 10 different breeds.
