Beef Breeding Event at Tully
Around 400 farmers attended the ICBF Beef Breeding Event at Tully last Saturday, 12thOctober.
It featured three main stands covering information on the Gene Ireland Maternal Breeding program, Profitability using Euro-Star Indexes and the Gene Ireland progeny test program at Tully. There was also an information area updating farmers on developments in ICBF weight recording service and HerdPlus. As part of the information area farmers could also avail of breeding advice from AI companies and Herdbooks. They could also sign up to be involved in the G€N€ IR€LAND maternal and progeny test programs.
217 progeny (mainly sired by Gene Ireland bulls) were on display at the event, made up of 163 bulls and 54 steers. They progeny were in four separate groups which consisted of animals currently on-test (130 progeny) and a new intake of bulls which is due to commence test shortly (87 bulls). These animals had individual performance and parentage information displayed which created a lot of interest and discussion among farmers.