Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Recent Reclassification of Beef Indexes: Discussion

Mr. Sean Coughlan:

That is an extremely important point because there are few genetic evaluation organisations in the world doing independent genetic evaluations. By that I mean that most organisations in the world that are tasked with doing genetic evaluations have a commercial interest in the animals they are evaluating. That is not the case with the ICBF. We have no commercial interest in the animals we are evaluating and that is why commercial farmers place such trust in the ICBF.