Selecting a bull to breed replacements There is plenty to consider when searching for a new stock bull; health status, if the animal is fit for purpo ...
Beef
New Sussex Cattle Initiative
As part of a new initiative with Signet, the Sussex Cattle Society will fund the recording costs of any Society member that has paid their capitation fees; effectively removing the financial barrier that may have previously limited smaller herds from engaging in weight recording.
From 2021, data collection services for Sussex cattle will move entirely online. Extra data has been provided by the Society to support this work – including the provision of pedigree records for 1,500 stock bulls to strengthen the genetic evaluations and enhance Signet’s cutting edge, inbreeding software.
Cataloging Services for Beef Clients
As part of the developments associated with our new webpage listing cattle for sale, Signet clients can now generate their own sale catalogues.
Beef Clients Get Access to Carcase Trait EBVs
A new web link on an animal's breeding report, now means beef producers can go directly to the AHDB National Beef Evaluation and see a series of new breeding values. The breeding values were created as part of the Carcase Traits project, which pulls together data from BCMS, Breed Societies and abattoirs to generate EBVs for traits like Carcase Weight, Conformation and Days to Slaughter.
Performance Recording during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
This article provides advice to breeders on recording their stock in the absence of ultrasound scanning data. New services have been developed to help breeders to supply data and promote livestock that are for sale
Update: 20th May 2020 - Scanning to resume for clients within 125 miles of a Signet Technician.
Finding beef data online
In the last 12 months our online reporting services for bull buyers and Signet performance recording beef herds have been completely updated.
Simple results, that are available to everyone include
- Cattle for Sale– lists bulls, cows and semen currently available for sale
- Latest Breed Results– providing links to the Sire Summary, Promising Young Bull List and the Breed Benchmark
New Beef Manual: Choosing bulls for Better Returns
A new guide to Beef breeding has been compiled by Alex Brown (Beef Breeding Projects Manager) and Amy Hughes (Knowledge Exchange Manager) covering a w ...
New breeding tools will help beef farmers boost profits
Five new Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) have been developed to help farmers improve profits by producing more animals that meet target specification ...
Beef Carcase Traits Project – Update Dec 2017
Work to convert AHDB and HCC funded research for abattoir derived carcase information into EBVs for beef and dairy cattle took another step closer thi ...
Beef Feed Efficiency Programme expands across Great Britain – October 2017
Reducing feed costs can make a big difference to the bottom line of all beef businesses. Enabling farmers to do that without affecting performance is ...