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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: ...we have the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, ICBF, in afterwards as well to discuss and tease out the issues that are being raised. There is no doubt that from a financial perspective the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, is a disappointment and a poor replacement for the one that went before it which was the suckler cow welfare scheme, which farmers found involved less red tape and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Michelle Mulherin: ...would expect that the board of ICBF would have proper engagement with the witnesses and the other breeding organisations and that they would be heard out. The issue of governance, and that the scheme would function properly and bring about results, is a legitimate question. When we hear about the new CAP or of agriculture in Europe, issues of climate change and environmental change go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

...: I thank the Chairman and members of the joint committee for the invitation to appear. I welcome the opportunity to provide some information to the committee on the ICBF and our role in the agriculture industry. I will take this opportunity to provide the committee with information on the functions of ICBF. The ICBF was established in 1998, as a non-profit,"'industry good",...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: ..., ICCS. It is like the seventh secret of Fatima trying to get information out of the ICBF. It has furnished us with a lot of information and all of the key metrics on the impact of the beef data genomics programme and productivity. The ICCS was looking for some information and, fortuitously, it got it today or yesterday, as it was about to arrive here, because the ICBF knew bloody well...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Mr. Michael Doran: The beef data and genomics programme is a Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine scheme that was brought in in the last Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, reform to help to target money at the suckler sector, which was identified as needing that support at the time. That was the background to the scheme. There was a big focus on terminal traits for a long time and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Dr. Andrew Cromie: I will deal with some of the technical questions that have been asked with regard to the star ratings and the impact of the scheme. The objectives of the scheme, as pointed out initially, are to address some of the serious challenges that we had in the suckler herd relating to key metrics such as calves per cow per year. There were serious concerns from a climate and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

Dr. Andrew Cromie: To deal with the issue of indexes changing, one of the key aspects introduced to the scheme by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine at the very start is that once an animal is genotyped and has a genomic evaluation and once it is four or five stars, that animal is eligible for the purposes of the scheme, regardless of what happens to its stars afterwards....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data Genomics Programme: Discussion (22 May 2018)

...-breeding never took off, even though the science suggested farmers should cross-breed. Senator Lombard asked why a farmer would not do it. That reason is that the economic breeding index has data going back to 2005. At the time, the ICBF was in the midst of various storms around changing the direction of dairy breeding away from holsteinisation and milk traits to talking about a trait...