Continental breeds expected to lose points in new beef indexes
Continental breeds are expected to lose ground to earlier maturing breeds such as Hereford and Angus, which are favoured by adding age at slaughtering to evaluations.
Plans to achieve one-fifth of the emissions reductions required in agriculture by tweaking cattle breeding have collided with well-established, market-led trends in the beef industry.
Diehard fans of continental beef breeding have been taken aback by the impending shake-up of genetic evaluations after climate action was added by the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation to the evaluation system.
