Agri Diagnostics Ireland Ltd

12/09/2025

Beef Welfare Scheme 2025

Participant Guidelines
Participants must order the kits before October 13th 2025.
Participants can select which parasites they wish to test for.
Suit 1: Fluke Sedimentation for presence/absence of fluke eggs

Or

Suit 2: McMasters Egg Count for faecal egg counts of stomach/gut worm eggs

Order Kits

Participants must carry out 2 faecal tests with a minimum of four weeks between each test.
Participants who opt to carry out faecal testing will be required to complete a record showing the date of collection of samples, the number of samples collected, and the date submitted to a suitable laboratory/testing facility of their choosing for analysis. In addition, sale receipts of sample kits purchased must be retained on the farm and available for inspection. The Department may also request of copy of the record sheets and purchase receipts from an applicant during the year as part of an administration check to verify compliance with this measure
Sampling Guidelines
Samples must be submitted to a suitable laboratory/testing facility of the Customer’s choosing (all faecal samples submitted must be fresh).
Both cows or calves can be samples
Take samples of fresh dung from a number of animals and get them to the laboratory / suitable testing facility as soon as possible. A pooled sample should contain faecal samples from ten animals or more.
In order to avoid deterioration of the samples, it is important to send the sample away to the laboratory / suitable testing facility early in the week.
Avoid sending samples to the suitable laboratory/testing facility on a Thursday or Friday, as deterioration of the sample over the weekend can result in inaccurate results.
Avoid putting samples in the freezer or direct sunlight, or holding onto them for over 24 hours.

The Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme kit BEEP

08/04/2024

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25/03/2024

07/09/2023

Agri Diagnostics Ireland Ltd is delighted to be an accredited lab for IBR testing in conjunction with the National Beef Welfare Scheme (NBWS).

All details of this Scheme can be accessed on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine websitegov.ie -National Beef Welfare Scheme (www.gov.ie)

Action 1 – IBR Testing (Mandatory Action)

This is a mandatory action. Participants are committing to testing bovines in the herd for IBR gE antibodies.
All blood samples should be submitted by a PVP to an ISO 17025 accredited laboratory within 3days of the samples been taken but no later than 17.30hrs on 01 November 2023.

Agri Diagnostics Ireland Ltd is an ISO 17025 accredited lab.
We offer one of the fastest turnaround times for results processing with the majority of results reported back to the herd owner within 48 hours of sample receipt.
We also have a number of collection points around the country which allows herd owners to avoid the postage charge associated with posting the samples directly to us.

Please call us on 064 66 33 922 or email at [email protected] for more details.

22/01/2023

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22/12/2022

Parasite Control TASAH Consult (Cattle & Sheep)

As part of the targeted advisory service on Animal Health (TASAH), a parasite control TASAH consult, between trained veterinary practitioners and their clients will continue to be available for 2023. This is a free and voluntary programme supported as a part of the rural development plan 2014-2022, co-funded by the Irish government and the EU. All Irish herds and flocks are eligible to take part in the programme for 2023. Agri Diagnostics Ireland offers parasite control testing as part of the TASAH programme.

Registrations are now open until 31st December 2022. To register please visit https://animalhealthireland.ie/programmes/parasite-control/parasite-control-tasah-consult/.

22/11/2022

Here's Agri Diagnostics Lab Manager Marta Mackowska and a few of the Veterinary Bioscience students from MTU catching up after we delivered a short training course on Parasite testing.

Marta discusses what it's like to work at Agri and her favourite part about it. MTU students Saoirse and Caoimhe discuss how they got into their field of study and what they learned from the demonstration!

18/11/2022

Last Tuesday, Agri Diagnostics delivered a short training course to students from Munster Technological University, showing them the latest methods and testing techniques.

A group of 11 students spent a morning in the company’s parasitology lab and were shown how to detect liver and rumen fluke in cattle. Parasites remain a health issue for farm animals, and it’s estimated that liver fluke disease causes annual losses of approximately €90 million in Ireland.

Here are some of our favourite photos from the day!

19/10/2022

This week, Agriland.ie posted a really informative article on the BEEP-S Scheme and why it’s valuable to farmers.

Our takeaway? The BEEP-S Scheme supports farmers financially to test before they treat. Dosing your herd blankly is costly and will create resistance in your herd.

Agri Diagnostics is an approved laboratory for the BEEP-S Scheme. This year’s testing has been very successful with 100% reporting of results.

We’re delighted to support the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in executing the testing for this project.

Many farmers will now be considering their winter parasite treatment protocol for cattle and the first step should be to take a dung sample.