Have you weighed for SCEP?

Have you weighed for SCEP?

20% Picture: This Is Payment Worth Of Scep Measure Your Alone Teagasc

The Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP) has a number of key requirements, one of which is the weighing of cow and calf pairs on your farm.

As part of the programme, participants must weigh at least 80% of eligible animals born on the holding of the yearly reference number in each scheme year and their dams and submit the weights to the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF). 

This measure alone is worth 20% of your SCEP payment.

Some key SCEP weighing requirements:

  • Each live calf must be unweaned and weighed with its dam on the applicant's holding on the same day;
  • Where a calf dies before five months of age or its dam, this must be recorded on AIM, and the 80% does not include such a pair;
  • All calves being submitted for weighing must have been born in the herd within each scheme year;
  • All calves being submitted for weighing must be eligible for the scheme. They must be out a suckler dam and sired by a beef bull;
  • All calves being submitted for weighing 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.

Weights should be submitted within seven days of weighing and no later than November 1 annually. These weights can be submitted online to ICBF or posted to ICBF if recorded in paper format.

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