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

Mr. Sean Coughlan:

The reference is the number of calved cows. If we say the reference is 20 calved cows, chances are the farmer may have had 22 or 23 cows on the farm last year. If he has 20 cows on the farm, he may have had 16 calves last year. Therefore, it would be 60% of the 16, which-----