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 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.
The study involved 81 high-index sires and 46 low-index sires. Through the ICBF's database, the progeny records for all of the bulls involved were accessed.
Sheep
Sheep Ireland hosted its annual EuroStar Multi-breed Ram Sale in Tullamore Mart on Saturday, August 26.
Dairy
Stephen Connolly, of the ABP Food Group, discussed why choosing a beef bull based on its terminal traits is important.
Using the €uro-Star terminal index when picking animals for finishing can significantly increase farm profitability.
Sheep Ireland will hold a special sale of multi-breed rams in Tullamore Mart on Saturday, August 27.
