A new record was set today (Monday, November 24) at the Carrick Winter Fair when a Tropique-sired Belgian Blue heifer sold ...

While weanling heifers sold to £1750 for a 450kg Charolais (389.00).

This Belgian Blue heifer weighing 644kg and owned by McKinney Brothers from Letterkenny sold for €16,000 at the Winter Fair ...

Ever wondered what the bovine version of Arnold Schwarzenegger would look like? Probably not! But there is, in fact, a cattle breed that looks like a bovine bodybuilder on steroids. The name of this ...

A super entry of 420 calves and weanlings on Thursday 20th November met with an outstanding trade for all types on offer.

The Boston Globe profiles the drug development work of Acceleron, which hopes to develop a therapy that regulates body tissues and systems. To help illustrate its efforts, researchers point to a ...

Beef cows sold to 424p for a Belgian Blue 750kg at £3180, Holstein/Friesian cows to 292p for 680kg at £1985 and beef heifers to 426p for a Charolais 740kg at £3152. Beef bullocks to a top per head of ...

Double muscled animals have an increase in muscle mass of up to 20% greater than normal animals. The increased muscle is due to the fact that these animals have a mutation in a specific gene that ...

Good quality beef bred cows sold to £353 for 624k at £2200 from an Ardglass farmer followed by £348 for 638k at £2200 from a Markethill farmer. A Downpatrick producer received £346 for 736k Aberdeen ...

Muscular "super cattle" have been produced through genetic mutation and decades of selective breeding. What's False Muscular "super cattle" are not technically the result of "genetic engineering" (i.e ...