About the Authors

Deirdre C. Purfield

Deirdre.purfield@teagasc.ie

Affiliation Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Center, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland

Sinead McParland

Affiliation Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Center, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland

Eamon Wall

Affiliation Sheep Ireland, Bandon, Co. Cork, Ireland

Donagh P. Berry

Affiliation Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Center, Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DCP DPB. Data curation: EW. Formal analysis: DCP SM DPB. Funding acquisition: DPB. Investigation: DCP SM DPB. Project administration: DPB. Resources: DPB EW. Software: DCP. Supervision: DPB. Visualization: DCP. Writing – original draft: DCP SM DPB EW. Writing – review & editing: DCP SM DPB EW.