SCEP Scheme

Depends what Pats other calves ore off, doesn’t have to be an Ai bull , can be a qualifying stock bull. If they’re off non qualifying Ai bulls then no he doesn’t hit the target.

Im pretty sure that the 80% requirement has been waived for this year because farmers had their cows in calf last year before they knew what the terms and conditions of the SCEP scheme were.

There is a requirement for bulls with enough stars as well. It increases over time as well. That is based on the parentage of the reference calves for that year

What will the day when BB weanling make good prices at next year’s weanling sales

It will be up on ICBF & teagasc website they said. Not sure if it's up yet.

I feel sorry anyone with BB stock as they'll be hit badly under the new stars. Anything that's genotyped 4/5 now and drop still qualify based on initial stars for SCEP.

Very annoying there doing this after lads signed up based on their current herds.

Clueless as ever, it’s a five year contract and if you don’t stay in it for the five years whatever money you get has to be paid back.

Well there is a "penalty" in the sense that your payment will be reduced - but it will only be pro-rata. I think it is by a max of 20% of the previous year's reference number or something like that. You can't jump down to 0 for example.

Week wont do much to ease the worry people have. They should do some worked examples of the impact of the changes on some of the popular AI bulls so people can understand/see the impact the changes will have. So far the information being shared is very poor and an over complicated delivery of the information.

Well I passed my Bord Bia audit. Have one transgression to deal with, but it's something I want to do anyway. The animal remedies record was fine when printed from an MS Excel worksheet. That makes it easier going forward. Just copy and delete lines.

Tags were on all cattle. Thanks to Cormac Tagging for that. All movements were on line too, so no hassle there. I did a lot of tidying up too prior to the inspection, so no harm

That's only if you have no order way of tracking. I use HerdAp & then use Google forms for majority of other things. No issue with bord bia audit once all recorded that they want

New updates are live. The feckers have taken a dislike to my Purebreed LM with the changes!!! Good cut on some of them (one has dropped from 5 star to 3 star). My whole herd has shifted down and now ive more 3 & 4 stars. Thankfully all genotyped before this update so meet the SCEP conditions for the 5yrs.

About a quarter of mine have gone down a star, most stayed much the same, my overall replacement value hasn’t changed. Salers much the same, Sims and Lims slightly down. The whole thing is a joke, they’re not even trying to hide it any more. I might go to Carrick on Shannon tonight for the laugh to see ICBF getting an earful from the sucker farmers.