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Who will lead the Munster Cattle Breeding team? I see head of agribusiness at Dairygold Co-op Liam O’Flaherty has been drafted in as a board director into Munster Cattle Breeding Ltd. I can only assume it’s because his colleague, Dairygold’s head of operations Tim Healy, has stepped out into the interim management role. Speaking of that, I haven’t heard any runners and riders for the Munster Bovine CEO position that is up for grabs. There are plenty of good breeding heads internally, such as Doreen Corridan and Terry Dillon, and externally you have the likes of Andrew Cromie from ICBF and Rose Goulding from NCBC.
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.
The changes in 2020 were to reduce the weighting of genomics in the proof. Much like the dog that didn’t bark in the Sherlock Holmes story, the letters to the editor in last week’s paper were notable for what they didn’t mention. The dairy article (17 April 2021) to which the letters from Bernard Eivers of NCBC and Andrew Cromie of ICBF refer, has four key points: That some AI companies are pushing high-milk-volume bulls in their bull panels. That high-milk-volume bulls require more feed than lower-milk-volume bulls even at the same milk solids. That 11 of the 18 bulls on one bull panel are from just three sires, each of which has suffered a substantial drop in their EBI.
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