Stakeholders in the agriculture and forestry industries are struggling in identifying deer density thresholds in Ireland, ATU has said.
The ICBF is targeting herds participating in SCEP with these herds given priority in the application process.
Young rams from local Easycare and Wiltshire Horn flocks have been DNA sampled to help identify the genes that lead to wool shedding.
DNA profiling of cattle, known as genotyping, is needed to build breeding value indexes for livestock in NI