Beef Cow Stars
Development of a breeding programme matching livestock genetics to management systems and the management systems to the land.
Show MoreSuccessive years of low suckler cow margins have stifled reinvestment, reducing producer confidence and uptake of innovation, creating a catch-22. Low beef herd profitability results in significant reliance on subsidy support, therefore, beef producers are highly exposed to a reducing CAP budget, Brexit, and increasingly to market volatility.
Change is required to develop a strong, futureproofed breeding programme that supports resilient beef businesses through greater profit and performance consistency, within herd and across seasons. This group aims to better identify poor performing cows for cull and identify the best heifers for future herd replacements. They want then to be able to interpret recorded information to validate system and breeding bulls performance against the estimated genetic potential of those bulls.