Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Sean Coughlan:

We are talking here about the stars of the cows they have come out of. A farmer is also potentially using a terminal Charolais bull. That means he will get the milk, fertility and growth rate from the female. Then, the farmer puts the terminal on that. There are two parts to the puzzle in terms of the finished animal.

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