Teagasc Research Insights webinar series focus on addressing the challenges and opportunities in the agri-food sector and showcasing the latest thinking and Teagasc’s research in these areas. The next webinar is ‘Increasing the Value of Beef from the Dairy Herd’ and takes place on Wednesday 31st March 2021 at 9.30 am.
Panellists on Wednesday’s Research Insights Webinar at 9:30am will discuss how to maximise the value of beef coming from the dairy herd by selecting genetically elite beef sires and implementing best management practices in dairy beef systems.
This webinar is the final of three sessions discussing modern-day strategies to identifying genetically elite farm animals. Join Teagasc researchers in this webinar to learn how the co-evolution of breeding and management strategies can deliver on maximising the value of beef from the dairy herd; this can be best achieved by selecting genetically elite beef sires and implementing best management practices in dairy beef systems. Decision support tools such as the dairy-beef index to identify beef bulls suited for mating to dairy females are now being actively used; this index, which is based on the principles of other successful national breeding indexes, attempts to marry the desires of both the dairy and beef producers. Harnessing this genetic superiority through associated optimised grass-based management system will help ensure a return on investment which is resilience to external factors but also responsible in terms of social acceptability stewardship of the environment.
Increasing the Value of Beef from the Dairy Herd
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