Leading the Industry to Meat Objectives

LIMO is a student centred learning project within the HND course provision at CAFRE, Greenmount Campus. The project is optional and is usually studied by students in their final year with a particular interest in beef production (other options include BEEF and CREAM).

The project aims to develop student competencies in suckler herd management, beef husbandry skills, enterprise

policy development and the evaluation of new technologies applicable to beef production and in addition to:

• Demonstrate the production and management of quality beef cattle from a self-contained herd of Limousin cows.
• Assess the physical and financial performance of the herd and the performance and carcase quality of the progeny.
• Demonstrate the importance of suckler herd maternal traits such as temperament, fertility, milking ability and calving ease and beef carcase traits such as muscling and carcase yield.
• Demonstrate ‘ best commercial practice’ and the application of best available technology in all aspects of herd management to commercial herd owners.