Weekly Update: 06/03/2015
CPT Lambing takes off Our CPT flocks are extremely busy this week, with lambing in full flow. There have been no issues so far with the favourable weather conditions being…
Weekly Update: 27/02/2015
UCD Agriculture and Food Careers Day This week Sheep Ireland and ICBF attended this very important day in the in the Irish agricultural calendar as it gives the soon to…
The calm before the storm on the farm of Brian Nicholson
Weekly Update: 13/02/2015
MALP & CPT meetings This week we met with our CPT and MALP flocks to update them on the latest Sheep Ireland activities and discuss plans for the upcoming lambing…
Weekly Update: 06/02/2015
Ovigen This week, information letters have been circulated to all LambPlus breeders informing them of plans for this research project. We plan to visit our first pedigree flocks next week.…
Weekly Update: 23/01/2015
CPT Update - Pregnancy scanning This week the final CPT flocks were pregnancy scanned. This is always a nervous time as we wait to calculate the ewe conception rate to…
Weekly Update: 30/01/2015
Teagasc Hill sheep conference 2015 A great crowd attended this event on Wednesday evening (28th January). One of the speakers, Mr. Sam Wharry, Sheep farmer from Northern Ireland and Chairman…
Sheep Industry Meeting
The meeting took place in the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise yesterday (Thursday 18th) with a wide range of industry representatives present (80 in total). There were update presentations by Teagasc,…
Results from a project looking at the influence of genetics on sheep health in Ireland
The objective to this study was to quantify the genetic variation in foot lesion scores, fecal egg count (FEC) and dag score of lambs, and to examine the relationship between…
The flock of Mr. JH Jameson, Rockspring, Ferns Co. Wexford (1978)
Early beginnings of sheep breed improvement: 1978
We have recently come across an archive of old Department of Agriculture records pertaining to early sheep improvement initiatives in the late 1970’s. This archive contains some interesting photographs, one…
A selection of the crowd that attended the Sheep Ireland regional meeting in Tuam. It was a very productive meeting with a good attendance from people right across the industry
LambPlus Regional Meetings 2014
Sheep Ireland are once again holding five regional around the country throughout November. These meetings will give an opportunity for all farmers (LambPlus and Non-LambPlus) to come along and discuss the Irish…
National Ploughing Championships 2014
It's that time of year again and we are well underway in our preparations for the National Ploughing Championships from the 23rd to the 25th of September in Stradbally, Co.…
Sale Report – Sheep Ireland Multibreed €uroStar sale 2014
On Saturday 23rd of August all roads lead to Tullamore for the Sheep Ireland multi-breed ram sale. Overall we were happy with the sale with 165 lots moving through…