SCEP and Dairy Beef weighing deadlines approaching

Farmers participating in either the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) or the National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme need to be aware that the deadline for the submission of weight data to ICBF is fast approaching.

Under the Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme, applicants must weigh a minimum of 5 eligible calves and up to a maximum of 50 calves and submit the weights to the ICBF.

Calves must be at least 12 weeks old at the time of weighing and be registered in applicant’s herd for at least 10 days before weighing. All weights should be submitted to ICBF within 7 days of weighing but must be no later than 17.30hrs on 1 November 2026, a registered weighing scales must be used.

Find out more about the National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme here.

Under action 4 of the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme, participants must weigh, using a registered weighing scales, at least 80% of eligible animals born on the holding of the yearly reference number in each scheme year and their dams and submit weights to ICBF.

In accordance with the scheme’s terms and conditions, each live calf must be unweaned and weighed with its dam on the applicants holding on the same day.

All calves being submitted for weighing must have been born in the herd within each scheme year, meet the scheme’s eligibility criteria and must be in the ownership and possession of the applicant since birth and maintained on the holding. The calf must be a minimum of 50 days old before it is eligible to be weighed and weights should be submitted within 7 days of weighing and no later than November 1 annually.

Find out more about the Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme here.