Dairy
Selecting twice the number of cows to put forward for semen could be costing you €20 in terms of your economic breeding index (EBI).
The breeding decisions that you make today will have ramifications for the next 10-12 years, according to Teagasc's Dr. Donagh Berry.
Beef
Genomic testing could be possibly used to identify stolen animals or cattle, according to Teagasc's Donagh Berry.
Irish dairy farms have the potential to double the average milk solids produced by their dairy cows within the next 20 years, according to Teagasc's Donagh Berry.
How to breed the ideal dairy cow is the a question that many dairy farmers ask themselves a topic that was addressed at the Teagasc Dairy Conference.
There were 35,311 Jersey calves born in Ireland in 2014. But why has the uptake of crossbreeding been so low on Irish dairy farms?
