The Central Progeny Test (CPT) farms' lambing season is running very well. There are over 1,500 lambs already recorded on the CPT farms to date, with over 70% of ewes…

Position Overview: You will play a vital role in driving innovation, sustainability, and profitability in the sheep farming sector through data-driven analysis, strategic insights, and collaborative partnerships. Your role would…

As you may know, the National Sheep Breed Improvement Program aims to enhance the genetic merit of sheep breeds through various strategies, including selective breeding. One critical aspect of this…

The CPT is a fundamental pillar of the sheep breed improvement programme: Source of independent commercial data Establishing Genetic Linkage Validation of the indexes Investigating new traits Building across-breed dataset…

Sheep Ireland, through its breeding information service LambPlus, provides a range of breeding information reports and tools for the Irish Sheep farmer. We have made great progress over the last…

Sheep Ireland announces today that Kevin McDermott, the Sheep Ireland Manager, will be stepping down from his current position to pursue an exciting opportunity as the HerdPlus Manager at the…