The test station at Tully has been upgraded to help advances for cattle breeding in Ireland.
Tully Station opened in 1973 for bull performance testing and marked the introduction of centralised testing into the cattle improvement programme.
It was heralded at the time as a historic breakthrough from Irish cattle breeding.
A new reconstructed station is now been completed on the same site at a cost of half a million pounds. Around half of the funding came from EEC grants. The main feature of the new station is the provision of group penning for bulls.
It permits greatly increased numbers of bulls to be tested while retaining the capability of measuring individual feed efficiency through the use of individual electronically controlled feeders.
Station manager at Tully, Seán O'Leary describes how the changes at the new station facilities will help to improve the quality and standard of cattle reared in Ireland.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 26 October 1983. The reporter is Charlie Bird.
