
ABRI News
The latest industry news and information

ABRI News
The latest industry news and information

ABRI News
The latest industry news and information

UNE Farming Futures Events
Late last month, ABRI were proud silver sponsors of the UNE Farming Futures events in Armidale. On Thursday, 21 July, ABRI held a booth at

BREEDPLAN Completeness of Performance Report
The Completeness of Performance herd rating system assesses the quantity of pedigree and performance information that has been submitted to BREEDPLAN by an individual seedstock

An Update from the ILR Support Team
Supporting a comprehensive system like ILR2, that is so many different things to so many different breed societies, is a logistical challenge of balancing our

Let’s Talk Competition Software
ABRI’s competition software, iCompete, is a full association system from A to Z. Not only can it handle your membership, registrations, renewals, association’s breeding certificates

ABRI Welcomes New Dairy Express Manager
The team at the Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI) would like to extend a warm welcome to Fiona Brierley, who has joined us as the Manager

iCompete Live Results
iCompete recently scored and ran the National Campdraft Council of Australia (NCCA) team campdraft event, as part of the 2022 Nutrien Classic Program. The participating

An Update on ILROnline
2021 has been a big year for the ILR Support Team as we continue to support our existing systems, rollout out our new systems, and

BREEDPLAN Selection Index Development
With the recent enhancements to the BreedObject software, the redevelopment of Selection Indexes has remained a strong focus for ABRI. Selection Indexes are calculated using

ABRI Research and Development Update
ABRI continues to provide research support to clients collecting genomic information. Dr Brad Crook and Dr Shalanee Weerasinghe of ABRI recently collaborated with three Australian

Gene Editing
Following the announcement by the Red Angus Association of America in September 2021 that they will be providing herd book registry for gene edited animals,

New Sales Catalogue Functionality
ABRI has recently completed enhancements to the sales catalogue functionality of the International Livestock Registry (ILR). The latest developments will benefit Australian breed societies

ILROnline FAQs
Why are ABRI’s ILR systems focusing on standardisation? software consistency – with ABRI’s 180+ breed society clients, all with largely similar requirements, standard software solutions

To EBV or not EBV, that is the question…
Incremental changes for a profitable future By Marie Copley of Copley Pastoral Watching the Olympics is inspiring and amazing. Who could not be inspired and

AAABG Conference
ABRI will be participating in the upcoming Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) Conference, being held on 2 – 4 November,

Keith Entwistle UNE Scholarship recipients
The Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI) are proud to announce the 2021 recipients of the Keith Entwistle AM scholarship, awarded to two students studying at

Find us on Facebook!
Like and follow our Facebook page to stay up to date with the latest news from the team at ABRI. You can find us by searching ‘Agricultural Business

Changes to the Selection Index Documentation
In recent months, the SBTS & TBTS extension teams, in conjunction with BREEDPLAN staff, have reviewed the BREEDPLAN tip sheets relating to selection indexes. Two new

International Evaluations
ABRI continues to develop the infrastructure for two international evaluations, one for the Hereford breed and the other for the Brahman breed. The Hereford evaluation

BREEDPLAN’s Global Expansion
ABRI is now seeing a significant volume of genotyping coming through from our European and UK clients, in levels that exceed that of many of

An Update on ILROnline
The ILR Support Team has been busy since their last update! They have been supporting ILR2, transitioning more clients to the cloud, rolling out and adding yet more

Second Round of ‘Recording for BREEDPLAN’ Short Videos Released
The Southern Beef Technology Services (SBTS) and Tropical Beef Technology Services (TBTS) projects are pleased to announce the release today of seven short videos for the ‘Recording for BREEDPLAN’
Get in touch today
Interested in our services or want to chat to a team member?
Find out how to get in touch below.