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Farm Tech Talk: ACRES, AI companies and the row over ICBF stars
Jack Kennedy
The latest on the ACRES scheme, moves by AI companies to protect Irish genetics and the ongoing row over the Euro-star indices all feature on this week's show.
7 February 2025 News
News Podcast: Michael Healy-Rae, ICBF stars and calf boat cancelled
On this week’s show, we speak to Minister of State Michael Healy-Rae, talk about the ICBF Euro-stars indices and discuss the cancellation of a calf boat.
7 February 2025 Pedigree
Limousin society to remove Euro-star indices from all animals in herd book
The Irish Limousin Cattle Society has taken a massive decision to request the removal of ICBF genetic evaluations of all animals registered in its herd book.
Five breed societies pull Euro-star indices
A number of breed societies have made the decision to move away from printing ICBF indexes in bull sales catalogues.
5 February 2025 Breeding & health
Incorrect to say show heifers have no stars - NCBC
Farmers' arguments with ICBF indexes should focus on the maternal index's weightings, rather than on stars versus no stars, NCBC's Goulding said.
5 February 2025 News
Editorial: changing genetic scene
The key change internationally seems to be that instead of the breeding program owning bulls in the future, it needs to own the females, writes Jack Kennedy.
5 February 2025 Editorial
Irish Dexter Cattle Society takes aim at ICBF Euro-star indices
The Irish Dexter Cattle Society is the latest breed society to speak out against the current ICBF Euro-star indices.
5 February 2025 Pedigree
Two more breed societies to remove Euro-Star indices from sale catalogues
Nevan McKiernan has information that two more cattle breed societies have decided to withdraw the ICBF Euro-Star indices from their sale catalogues
31 January 2025 Pedigree
Charolais society to remove ICBF Euro-Star indices from sale catalogues
In a major move, the Irish Charolais Cattle Society has decided to remove Euro-Star indices from its sale catalogues.
30 January 2025 Pedigree
Salers Society to withdraw ICBF Indexes from sale catalogues
Nevan McKiernan spoke with the Irish Salers Cattle Society who have decided to withdraw ICBF Indexes from their sale catalogues.
29 January 2025 Pedigree
Mart tracker to make calf purchase easier
Chris Daly takes a deep dive into the recently launched ICBF Mart Tracker and how farmers can use it.
22 January 2025 Markets
Calf births could drop by 45,000 head this year
Calf numbers this year could be 100,000 head lower than 2023 if the 2% drop in births comes to pass.
19 January 2025 News