Dairy
Milk production inevitably begins to drop off in the second half of the year, but maintaining it for as long as possible is crucial.
Beef
When it comes to looking at the CBV of a calf, "what you don't want to do is give a five-star price for a one-star calf".
The Commercial Beef Value (CBV) is in its fifth season, and its impact is increasingly substantially in marts and farms across the country.
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The total number of calf registrations on Irish farms has surpassed two million for 2026, according to ICBF's data.
Agri-Business
The ICBF has confirmed details about key changes to the economic values in the Euro Star suckler breeding index.
AI handheld serves recorded in 2026 are running 9,506 behind last years figures, according to data from ICBF.
Over 70 farmers attended an event on the award-winning dairy and beef farm of Ryan McElhinney near Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
New figures obtained by Agriland from DAFM have shown over 10% of the Irish dairy-bred calves genotyped this spring were exported.
The latest data from ICBF shows that 1,056,515 cows have been recorded so far in 2026, giving us an indication of where milk production is.
As the use of artificial insemination (AI) winds down on dairy farms, what dairy and beef sires have been used the most in 2026?
Dairy News
The VistaMilk Research Ireland Centre hosted more than 100 stakeholders in Teagasc Moorepark this week for a future breeding conference.
According to data from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF), 614,527 handheld AI serves were recorded during the month of May.
New beef carcass performance data shows some trends in carcass performance and age at slaughter of dairy-beef cattle when grouped by CBV.
In the final few days of May, the national average somatic cell count (SCC) level was sitting at 158,000 cells/ml, according to ICBF.
53 bulls have been tested under the Dairy Gene Ireland programme in 2026 according to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF).
Farmers will be busy trying to get field work done while the sun shines, but as things die down they may notice a drop in milk production.
The most recent evaluation of the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) Active Bull List has seen another major re-ranking.
Milk constituents will fluctuate at this time of the year, but it is still important to know if you herd is performing at the optimum level.
According to data from ICBF, over 1.3 million calves have been registered to dairy dams 12 weeks on from February 1.
The total number of Irish calves registered so far in 2026 is set to surpass the 1.6 million mark this week.
The total number of Irish calves registered in 2026 is running more 21,000 head above last years figures as of Friday, April 17.
Despite spring calving on the wind down, the total number of Irish calves registered in 2026 is barrelling towards 1.5 million.
