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:

On the pedigrees, we have made it very clear that if we want a credible, long-term breeding strategy to achieve genetic gain, it is done with the purebred animals, by getting stock bull genetic gain through AI.