ICBF technical director Dr Andrew Cromie and Australia’s Dr Rod Polkinghorne at the ICBF’s bull progeny testing centre at Tully in Ireland last week.
Ireland’s 100,000 beef and dairy cattle farmers are among the first in the world to face the challenge of dealing with legislated emissions reduction targets.
In July the Irish Government committed to a legislative framework that will require emissions from agriculture to be cut by 25 percent by 2030.
The legally binding pledge requires Ireland’s farming sector to cut emissions from current levels of 23 million tonnes to 17 million…
