Sheep Ireland hosted an industry meeting on Thursday, April 29th at 1 pm. This one-hour online meeting covered some of the primary outcomes of research that has been undertaken in…

Sheep Ireland technicians have been busy over the last 10 days visiting the 4 CPT Flocks to collect the 40-Day weights among other traits such as DAG Score, BCS, Lameness,…

This spring due to Covid 19 restrictions, Sheep Ireland held 10 online workshops for LambPlus breeders during the months of February and March. The workshops were conducted using Microsoft Teams…

Central Progeny Test (CPT) Lambing has almost come to a finish for 2021. Data collected from commercial sheep is the foundations for the genetic evaluations. The CPT provides a huge…

Sheep Ireland have published the first genetic evaluation for the 2021 season. This is the earliest evaluation publication we have provided to date. It is critical that breeders view this…

The Central Progeny Test Lambing period has started this next week. This is a very busy time for Sheep Ireland with a huge amount of the commercial data that contributes…

The hill sector is currently under-represented in the national breed improvement programme as there is less of an underlying breeding structure compared to the lowland sector. This is something that…

The overall winners of the FBD LambPlus awards will be announced next Wednesday, March 3rd at 8pm and will be published in the Irish Farmers Journal next Thursday, March 4th.…

Our third and final nominee for the most improved LambPlus flock in 2020 is the Kilbride Vendeen flock which is owned by Neil and Ann Ford and is based near…

The Montybally Texel flock (MYE) was established by Martin Murphy in 2008 and joined the LambPlus programme in 2010. The flock is based in Ballykeeran Big, just outside Athlone, Co.…