Development of genetics / management recording system for the Northern Ireland beef industry - B-10-07
Duration 3 years
Team and Leader Dr A. Carson
Organisations Involved AFBI Hillsborough
Background and Summary
Timescale
Benefits
Details to follow
On-farm research to direct low carbon beef production in the Northern Ireland beef industry. (RCF-02/2010)
Duration 2 Years
Leader and Team Dr Alistair Carson, AFBI - Hillsborough
Organisations involved AgriSearch (Lead Industry Partner and Co-Funder), DARD Research Challenge Fund (Co-Funder), AFBI - Hillsborough (Research Partner)
Background and Summary
The research team is comprised of 12 Northern Ireland beef producers in partnership with AFBI scientists. The project will develop management tools to accurately monitor greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from beef systems at individual farm level and evaluate selected mitigation strategies within an on-farm project.
Maximising Beef Output from the Suckler Herd through Production of Heavy Suckler Bulls - B-06-04
Duration 3 years
Team and Leader L. Dawson, F. Lively and B. Moss
Organisations Involved Agricultural Research Institute of Northern Ireland and Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland
Background and Summary
Currently, production of beef from the suckler herd is a relatively inefficient way of producing beef as the cow has to be maintained whilst it takes up to 30 months to produce a finished animal. Prime beef production from the suckler herd has declined in recent years to the current level of 53% of beef output.
Production of a CD on 'Using research information to reduce the costs of producing milk, beef and sheep' - DBS-04-97
Duration 4 months
Team and Leader R. Steen
Organisations Involved ARINI - C.S. Mayne, D. Patterson, A. Carson, and Economics Research Division
Background and Summary
Ruminant livestock production is facing major challenges brought about mainly by the difficult economic climate which now pervades. It is our view that while new innovative research programmes are in hand to help farmers produce milk, beef and lamb more profitably the first need is for farmers to be made fully aware of the considerable amount of research information which is already available on lower cost production systems.
Survey to Determine the Prevelance of infection with BVD Virus in Suckler and Dairy Herds in Northern Ireland (RCF-01)
Duration 2 Years
Team and Leader AFBI, Stormont
Organisations Involved AgriSearch (Project Leader and Co-Funder), DARD Research Challenge Fund (Co-Funder), Ulster Farmers Union, AFBI - Stormont (Research Partner)
Background and Summary
Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is the most significant endemic viral disease in the United Kingdom from both a welfare and an economic perspective, and the prospect of control and eradication of BVDV is currently the subject of considerable attention in both the UK and Ireland.