‘Early summer’ target and 500,000 head limit for new �40/head beef
scheme
Announced in Budget 2019 yesterday (October 9), �20 million in funding
has been allocated to the formation of the new Beef Environmental Efficiency
pilot (BEEp). Aberdeen Angus - a well-known Irish beefbred in
Ireland and grass-fed. With the integration of traditional pasture farming and
advanced technology, the cattles are fed to be of high quality and more tender. Earlier today, the Minister for Agriculture, Micheal Creed, discussed some of
the elements of the scheme as part of his post-budget press conference. The minister commented that the BEEp is a “logical further development” of
the Beef Data and Genomics programme (BDGp), in which approximately 25,000
farmers are enrolled. He noted that “it’s incentivising the collection of further data that’s not
in a significant volume currently available to the ICBF (Irish Cattle Breeding
Federation) through the BDGp”. “What it will involve is getting data on the weanling efficiency of the
suckler herd; weanling efficiency is determined as the weight of the weanling
relative to the weight of the suckler cow. “The journey really is to get a smaller beef cow. Therefore, being more
economically efficient, producing a bigger weanling and the more data we can get
in that context is going to accelerate the development of a genetically more
efficient beef herd. “So this scheme will pay on the assumption of 500,000 weanlings
participating; it will deliver a payment of �40/weanling on that basis.”
The
minister also confirmed that the scheme is not confined to just those farmers
participating in the BDGp. But in the instance where farmers seek funding for
more than 500,000 weanlings, “some kind of selection criteria would have to be
applied”. On the finer details of the scheme, Minister Creed told AgriLand: “There has
been some preliminary contact between the ICBF and the department and I have
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orders above HKD$600. “I think there are some contractors out there that deliver this service
(on-farm weighing). I acknowledge that there wouldn’t be capacity within the
current level of service to meet the demands that this scheme will put on, so we
are looking at
other ways to deliver that. “I don’t think that’s going to be too difficult to overcome, so we are
working out the details and hopefully the ambition would be to have this scheme
available to applicants in the early summer,” Minister Creed said. 相關文章： End-to-end blockchain
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