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…
Weekly Update: 11/09/2015
Central Progeny Test (CPT) 2015 Plans for this year’s CPT are progressing rapidly. We are currently assembling our ram list for the AI programme and have a full panel of…
Weekly Update: 04/09/2015
A ram report has been launched for all LambPlus members. This report displays all the rams used in the flock for the previous 6 years. For these rams the following…
A buyer studies the stars before making their bid
Weekly Update: 28/08/15
The Launch of the Data Quality Index The Data Quality Index (DQI) is a new index that rates flocks based on the quality and quantity of the data recorded on…
Weekly Update: 21/08/2015
The LambPlus Multi-Breed ram sale Preparations are well under way for our sale tomorrow (Saturday 22nd August); breeders are asked to start showing up from 9:00am with the sale kicking…
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…