Farmers looking to purchase calves in marts will be able to view the CBV (commercial beef value) of calves from next week as the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) mart tracker for CBV goes live. Speaking at Dairy Day, ICBF service development manager Kevin Downing said: “This will allow a farmer to log in and see what the CBV of a calf is once it is checked into a mart and scanned through.