Dairy Beef Index

August 2024

Management

Dunmasc: Finding That Sweet Spot Between Good Carcass Weight and Easy Calving

‘Over the last couple of years sexed dairy semen has continued to gain traction here in Ireland, with the top end of herds bred to top dairy bulls and the...

April 2023

Ireland

NCBC: Testing Beef-on-Dairy for Ten Years Already

For ten years already, the National Cattle Breeding Centre (NCBC) has operated the largest beef-on-dairy program in Ireland, for Munster Bovine, Progressive Genetics and Ireland Genetics. ‘The Irish dairy herd...