I chuckled quietly when I heard all the movers and shakers in the ICBF were out in New Zealand this week extolling the virtues of the downward trend in greenhouse gas emissions by improving the genetic index. Flying them all out didn’t do much for the carbon index.

Interestingly, I see New Zealand breeding company Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC), is to invest in the Irish bull breeding programme in 2018. Up to now LIC has not taken part in Gene Ireland.