Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 July 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Beef Data and Genomics Programme: Discussion with Irish Cattle Breeding Federation
11:30 am
Dr. Andrew Cromie:
The sequence of events will be that the packs will be sent at the end of July or in August. Farmers will look through them. Our goal is to have the tags on farms during September in order that farmers can start to tag animals and return the tags. We will then start the process of genotyping with the laboratories which is being tendered for in a public procurement process. That will start in October and we will start to genotype approximately 20,000 animals per week. That is our target level in genotyping. We will work through all animals in the period of three or four months.
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