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As autumn approaches, Irish dairy farmers enter one of the most critical periods of the production...
Sheep
Genomic information can have a variety of potential uses for sheep breeders. Senior Signet...
The importance of retaining sheep numbers in hill areas in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain...
Dairy
A session around cow genetics and technologies to drive resilience through breeding was held at the...
N.Ireland
The lack of recognition for agriculture on the part of political parties in the UK has been...
The first evaluation of this year with the 2024-born lambs included, has recently been published by...
Pregnancy diagnosis is a vital part of managing fertility and productivity in dairy herds. One...
Dairy Technical
The latest update to the economic breeding index (EBI) will be available from November 28, 2023,...
The science of genomics is set to revolutionise the pace at which genetic improvement can be...
Tillage
A combination of genomics and the sourcing of Europe’s best genetic materials is driving a unique...
The interest in genotyping animals has increased in Ireland, with it having a number of benefits to...
International livestock genetics company Semex has announced that it will launch a breeding index...
Sheep News
The myriad sources of data now available to Sheep Ireland is allowing the organisation to achieve...
With labour becoming harder to source, more farmers are turning to smart farming technologies to...
Beef Technical
The Stabiliser Cattle Company (SCC) has confirmed that, in future, all animals sold at official...
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) has implemented a change in how genomics is blended...
New research - completed by the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) - revealed that the...
The notoriously difficult wheat genome - the genetic blueprint of the plant - has finally been...
The Irish Cattle Breeding Federation recently outlined how genomically-selected bulls perform in...
As part of the OVIGEN sheep genomics research project, over 13,000 pedigree sheep had genomic...
Farming near Kilnamartyra, Co. Cork, Andrew Dineen has grown his herd from 70 to 102 cows. At the...
The advice offered to farmers when it comes to selecting genomic bulls to breed the next generation...
In the coming weeks, Irish dairy farmers will be sitting down to select sires to breed the next...
Beef
Farmers have just hours left to submit an application to the second tranche of the Beef Data and...
New figures, released by the Irish Farmers Association (IFA), show that some 530,000 Irish cows are...
Over 50% of all suckler calves on Irish farms are born between the months of January and April. And...
