UK Sheep Breeders Roundtable Conference Today, Sheep Ireland personnel are attending the biennial Sheep Breeders Roundtable which takes place this weekend in Nottingham. The theme for this year is ‘thinking…
Deadline for LambPlus Sign-ups 2018 Our LambPlus sign-up forms for 2018 have been circulated and we wish to remind breeders that the deadline for the receipt of the sign-up forms…
LambPlus Sign-up Forms 2018 We have begun to circulate our LambPlus sign-up forms this week and by next week all existing breeders and new society breeders should have received one.…
CPT Update Last Wednesday marked the final day of AI for our 2017 CPT program on Brian Nicholson’s farm in Johnstown Co. Kilkenny. During the course of the program 29…
CPT AI has begun The first 296 Central Progeny Test (CPT) ewes of 2017 are currently being artificially inseminated today (Friday 13th October). There is a further 1,900 ewes remaining…
Sheep Ireland September board meeting On Thursday 14th Sept the board of Sheep Ireland representatives met. A number of topics were discussed at this meeting including; The LambPlus sale 2017…
Sheep Ireland Guide and Breeder Directory The latest Sheep Ireland guide has been produced and in early August was circulated to over 11,000 Irish sheep farmers by post. All LambPlus…
This booklet serves two purposes: The guide section itself contains very useful information regarding €uroStar indexes and how best to interpret them, ram selection, LambPlus, the Central Progeny Test Program etc.…