Weekly Update: 27/11/15
Breed Society Meeting – Tuesday 15th December 2015 In September Sheep Ireland invited all breed society representatives to a meeting. We hope to hold these meetings at least twice each…
Weekly Update: 13/11/2015
LambPlus Regional Meetings Two of the five LambPlus Regional meetings have now been held, there have been some good discussions taking place, with feedback on all the various aspects of Sheep…
Want to join the Sheep Ireland Team? Closing date Monday 30th
We currently have a vacancy for: TECHNICAL SUPPORT Sheep Ireland’s objective is to improve the profitability of all Irish sheep farmers by identifying and promoting the best performing sheep genetics through…
This Kilbarry ram (IE041357501947D) was bred by E. Buckley, Co. Cork and is now owned by F. Reynolds Co. Leitrim and was part of CPT program in 2015/2016
Weekly Update: 06/11/2015
CPT mating 2015 Early next week all breeders that submitted rams for use in the 2015 Central Progeny Test will receive reports on how their ram performed during AI -…
Weekly Update: 30/10/2015
2016 LambPlus membership Today Sheep Ireland are posting 2016 LambPlus sign-up forms. The deadline to return sign-up forms is Tuesday 1st December. The number of breeders joining the programme has…
Weekly Update: 23/10/2015
LambPlus Regional Meetings The annual LambPlus regional meetings have been set for 2015 (Dates and venues below). A strong attendance is critical at these meetings. The current sheep breed improvement…
Weekly Update: 16/10/2015
CPT Update There has been almost 1,500 commercial CPT ewes AI’d over the past 5 days, with 3 more days of AI left to do. The big challenge in the…
Weekly Update: 09/10/2015
Mating Screens Launched The Mating Screens have been launched this week which enables flock owners to record their flocks’ mating information. This is critical information in relation to our breeding…
Weekly Update: 02/10/2015
STAP Today marks the deadline for STAP task completion which means there is a huge amount of activity in the Sheep Ireland office. For STAP purposes in 2015 the €uro-Star…
Weekly Update: 25/09/2015
Ploughing 2015 This week was a very busy one with the National Ploughing championships in Ratheniska, Co. Laois. Sheep Ireland participated in the Livestock Demonstration in association with the Irish…
Weekly Update: 18/09/2015
Meeting with breed society representatives This week Sheep Ireland held their regular board meeting. In advance of this board meeting, we invited the representatives of all sheep breed societies to…
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Sale Report – Sheep Ireland Elite €uroStar Multi-breed sale 2015
Tullamore mart was the venue for the 5th annual Sheep Ireland Multibreed ram sale which was held on August 22nd. The Sale is now starting to establish itself as the…