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May 11, 2021 3:12 pm
The co-founders of the Beef Plan Movement, Eamon Corley and Hugh Doyle, hosted a meeting last Thursday (May 6) which they described as an AGM for the organisation.
As part of the almost 18 month-long Beef Plan Movement split, Corley, Doyle and a number of directors of the association have been seeking to have themselves recognised as an official farmer representative organisation.
According to a statement on behalf of the co-founders, elections were held at last week’s meeting to fill positions on seven “national subcommittees”.
The statement also says that Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue had recently communicated with the directors, outlining a “checklist” of issues to be attended to before they would be recognised as an official farmer representative organisation.
May 4, 2021, 6:20 am
On a recent ‘Lets talk cattle’ webinar hosted by Teagasc, Andrew Cromie from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) spoke about research based on methane output, which was carried out at the ICBF test centre based in Tully, Co. Kildare.
As part of the research over 670 cattle have had a direct measurement taken of growth, feed intake and methane output per day. These cattle are also progeny of different artificial insemination (AI) sires.
Speaking about the trials and studies, that have taken place and made comparatives between suckler-beef progeny, dairy-beef progeny and between their genders, Andrew explained:
“We are seeing clear breed and gender differences; it’s not surprising that we know young bulls are more efficient than steers or heifers. The bulls have a lower methane output/day.