Weekly Update: 16/10/2015
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…
Weekly Update: 09/10/2015
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…
Weekly Update: 02/10/2015
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…
Weekly Update: 25/09/2015
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…
Weekly Update: 18/09/2015
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…
A buyer studies the stars before making their bid
Sale Report – Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-breed sale 2015
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…
Weekly Update: 14/08/2015
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…
Weekly Update 07/08/2015
Premier ram sales These sales continue to take place around the country. Last week both the Charollais and Belclare sales took place with significant interest in €uroStar evaluations noticeable in…
Weekly Update: 31/07/2015
Weekly evaluations We continue to run a weekly evaluation each weekend. This practice ensures that breeders and commercial farmers have the most up to date genetic evaluations available to them…
Weekly Update: 24/07/2015
Sheep Ireland Online Ram Search The Sheep Ireland Ram Search has been updated as part of ongoing works to improving the Sheep Ireland website. The Ram Search allows farmers and…
Weekly Update: 17/07/2015
Ram Sale Catalogues This week Sheep Ireland continue to help breed societies to prepare sales catalogues for upcoming ram sales. We explained in our weekly update last week a number…
Gary is among the founding members of the Mayo-Connemara flockbook.
Weekly Update: 10/07/2015
Ram sale season kicking off soon Another ram sale season is upon us and the fruits of breeders data recording are being included in ram sale catalogues in the form…