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No bull should appear on a Replacement index top one hundred list unless the bull has satisfactory terminal traits that will improve a suckler herd, the ICSA has told the ICBF.

Suckler farmers have been urged not to focus solely on mart price and carcass weight, but also on the costs of production as Teagasc and ICBF staff moved to reassure farmers over imminent changes to Ireland’s beef breeding indexes.