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 beauty of the genomics scheme is that, unlike previously, because we will have the DNA of calves and the DNA of stock bulls, we will know exactly what stock bull they are by. In fact, the genomics scheme solves a major problem.