Indexes could hold key to dairying's biggest challenges
The carbon sub-index was introduced last year, and indicates the carbon efficiency of a cow or bull.
"Get the EBI up" remains the main breeding advice, despite big changes in dairy farming, such as nitrate banding.
The Economic Breeding Index (EBI), carbon emissions, profitability, and the cow of the future, were discussed when Teagasc Environmental Edge podcast co-hosts Deirdre Glynn and Cathal Somers recently spoke to Teagasc advisor John McCabe, who works in the Aurivo joint programme.
