Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Education and Upskilling in the Agriculture Sector
Professor Karina Pierce:
The herd at the UCD Lyons Farm has a very high EBI, which follows very closely with the messages and the research that have come from Teagasc and all its good work in genetics. With the next generation herd and a lot of the herd in the Curtins farm, the EBI of our herds are genetically very similar. The make-up underneath might be a little bit different but actually they are quite similar. I would say it would be more controversial if we had gone a route that was not EBI or if we had gone-----