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January 15, 2021 10:50 am Economic Breeding Index (EBI) can be used as an effective herd management tool across all dairy production scenarios, according to University College Dublin’s (UCD’s) associate professor of agriculture, Alan Fahey. Speaking at a recent webinar, held to profile the results achieved by the Lyons’ Systems herd over the past five years, Fahey pointed out that two cows with the same overall EBI value could deliver two entirely different levels of performance. One could be particularly high in terms of milk output, the other could be very high, where fertility is con...

Cows grazing at Lyons during the summer. This year is set to be the best yet in terms of performance for the systems research herd at UCD Lyons Estate. The herd is on track to produce 610kg MS/cow on average and the overall empty rate, after just 10 weeks of breeding, was a remarkable 3.5% when the three cows that were not submitted for breeding are excluded. The project was set up in 2015 to demonstrate high-input high-output grass-based systems. Finbar Mulligan is the current lead researcher with several research and farm staff involved. Finbar says the fundamentals of the system are gras...