Show Notes
Genetics can provide Ireland with the means to reduce the emissions from, and increase the productivity of, our national dairy herd.
This will be more important than ever as the dairy industry comes under pressure from the Covid-19 crisis.
Sinead McParland, a quantitative geneticist at Teagasc Moorepark, describes how this can be achieved and incorporated into the Economic Breeding Index.
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