Dairy Cattle Milk Recording Working Group
Objectives
- Develop the ICAR Guidelines (section 2.1 in particular), and ensure they are relevant to dairy cattle milk recording. Areas of particular focus where new scientific or economic knowledge will bring about a measurable benefit to the members and farmers include:
- 24-hour and accumulated milk yield calculations, and
- quality management for dairy cattle milk recording organisations
- Monitor relevant global developments and survey the recording methods used by ICAR members. Using sound scientific and economic principles applied to the data and information gathered:
- Make recommendations, to improve ICAR Guidelines, and
- Provide analysis to ICAR member on the methods practiced with the goal of improving the value provided by dairy cattle milk recording.
- Communicate findings to ICAR members by organising forums at which trends and developments are reported and discussed.
Composition
Chairman
Members
- Franz Josef Auer – Austria
- Xavier Bourrigan – France
- Yaniv Lavon – Israel
- Kai Kuwan – Germany
- Betka Logar – Slovenia
- Asha Miles – USA
- Sofia Nyman – Sweden
- Sujit Saha – India
- Carlos Trejo Jimenez – Chile
Observers
- Khalid Ahmed Elrabie – Sudan
- Aldemar González Rodríguez – Colombia
ICAR team support
