Weekly Update: 13/11/2015
LambPlus Regional Meetings Two of the five LambPlus Regional meetings have now been held, there have been some good discussions taking place, with feedback on all the various aspects of Sheep…
LambPlus Regional Meetings Two of the five LambPlus Regional meetings have now been held, there have been some good discussions taking place, with feedback on all the various aspects of Sheep…
We currently have a vacancy for: TECHNICAL SUPPORT Sheep Ireland’s objective is to improve the profitability of all Irish sheep farmers by identifying and promoting the best performing sheep genetics through…
CPT mating 2015 Early next week all breeders that submitted rams for use in the 2015 Central Progeny Test will receive reports on how their ram performed during AI -…
2016 LambPlus membership Today Sheep Ireland are posting 2016 LambPlus sign-up forms. The deadline to return sign-up forms is Tuesday 1st December. The number of breeders joining the programme has…
LambPlus Regional Meetings The annual LambPlus regional meetings have been set for 2015 (Dates and venues below). A strong attendance is critical at these meetings. The current sheep breed improvement…
CPT Update There has been almost 1,500 commercial CPT ewes AI’d over the past 5 days, with 3 more days of AI left to do. The big challenge in the…
Mating Screens Launched The Mating Screens have been launched this week which enables flock owners to record their flocks’ mating information. This is critical information in relation to our breeding…
STAP Today marks the deadline for STAP task completion which means there is a huge amount of activity in the Sheep Ireland office. For STAP purposes in 2015 the €uro-Star…
Ploughing 2015 This week was a very busy one with the National Ploughing championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois. Sheep Ireland participated in the Livestock Demonstration in association with the Irish…
Meeting with breed society representatives This week Sheep Ireland held their regular board meeting. In advance of this board meeting, we invited the representatives of all sheep breed societies to…
Tullamore mart was the venue for the 5th annual Sheep Ireland Multibreed ram sale which was held on August 22nd. The Sale is now starting to establish itself as the…
Sheep Ireland ram sale Final preparations are now being made for the Sheep Ireland ram sale. The sale takes place in Tullamore mart on Saturday August 22nd. We have 186…