Berlin 2014: available documents
39th ICAR Session, Berlin (Germany). 19-23 May 2014
Informative material available from the Berlin Biennial Sessions
- Pictures and the
- i4-Newsletter ( #1 – #2 – #3),
The files presented during the meeting are listed hereby:
Tuesday, 20 May – ICAR/IB Technical Session: Parentage verification and parentage discovery
Chair: Suzanne Harding
Parentage recording and discovery – Overview
Suzanne Harding
International Genotype Exchange Platform (GENOEX) (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Joao Dürr
Analytical and statistical consideration on the use of the ISAG-ICAR-SNP panel for parentage control, genotyped with the Illumina bead chip technology, exemplified on the German Holstein (HF) population (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Ekkehard Schütz
Application of a custom SNP chip: Microsatellite imputation, parentage SNP imputation, genomic evaluations, and across-breed nation-wide genetic disease prevalence with the International Beef and Dairy SNP chip (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Matthew McClure
Wednesday, 21 May – ICAR Opening and keynote presentations
Chair: Reinhard Reents
MORNING
Opening (Presentation as PDF)
Uffe Lauritsen, ICAR President
Sustainability in the agricultural development of Germany
Bernhard Polten, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Cattle Breeding in Germany (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Bianca Lind, German Cattle Breeders‘ Federation ADR
Keynote Presentation I: Animal identification, animal breeding and international trade – the new EU Regulation on Zootechnics (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Sergio Pavón, EU Commission
Keynote Presentation II: ICAR in a changing environment for animal production (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Hans Wilmink, CRV
Keynote Presentation III: Genotypes are useful for more than genomic evaluation (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Paul VanRaden, USDA
AFTERNOON
ICAR Main Session: Carry over/Sample Quality, MS2
Chair: Christian Baumgartner
The strategic importance of sampling processes for ICAR in a dynamic environment
Uffe Lauritsen
ICAR’s Accuracy Task Force – the reason for its establishment (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Brian Wickham
Draft: ISO 707|IDF 50 – Guidance on sampling for milk and milk products
David Chedotal
Chair: Martin Burke
Verification of correct assignment of milk samples to cows in AMS farm by DNA microsatellites (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Jürgen Duda
A testing protocol for carry over in AMS using Tracer-Color dilution (Full manuscript)
Peter Løvendahl
Best practices to minimize carry-over contamination in milk recording samples, both from operator and from equipment design and set-up perspectives (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Steven Sievert
ICAR Open Session, S3
Chair: Danuta Radzio and Jorge Lama
How performance recording data can reveal herd animal welfare level: Building a useful tool for Italian breeders (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Alessia Tondo
Dairy livestock welfare and climate change,risks analysis (Full manuscript)
Kakha Nadiradze
FabaHELMI – Advisory service for better fertility in Finnish dairy cattle herds (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Anu Myllys
Network of advisory services to improve the health of dairy cows in Baden-Württemberg (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Stefanie Hollenbach
Detection of ketosis in dairy cattle determining infrared milk ketone bodies amount (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Jean-Bernard Davière
Thursday, 22 May
MORNING
ICAR Main Session: Functional Traits, MS3
Chair: Christa Egger-Danner
Harmonization of recording and use of direct health data as basis of sustainable improvement of dairy health and longevity (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Kathrin Friederike Stock
Metabolic disorders and their relationship to milk production traits in Austrian Fleckvieh (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Birgit Fuerst-Waltl
Claw health data recording in Spanish dairy cattle (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Noureddine Charfeddine
Potential of fine milk composition for cow udder health management (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Aurélie Lainé
From science to practice – improved udder health with the German project milchQplus (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Maria Thielen
Inclusion of direct health traits in the total merit index of Fleckvieh and Brown Swiss cattle in Austria and Germany (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Christa Egger-Danner
Phenotypes for novel functional traits of dairy cattle (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
John Cole
Progesterone in milk – investigations on practicability as a functional trait in dairy cows (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Ariane Boldt
Genetic evaluations based on data from automatic milking systems (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Bjørg Heringstad
Genomic breeding values for novel traits such as feed efficiency through female only reference populations (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Donagh Berry
The road to genetic selection for methane emission from ruminants: A global approach (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Yvette de Haas
ICAR Dairy Cattle Milk Recording, S1
Chair: Hans Wilmink
The ICAR for dairy cattle recording: An overview of the work and ideas of the Dairy Cattle Milk Recording working group
Jacob van de Westhuizen
Practical aspects in milk recording in Central and Eastern Europe and its effects on the on the guidelines (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Pavel Bucek
Accurate recording at large herds in the United States: Current practices and expected developments (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Kevin Haase
Supporting the quality of the raw milk based on cattle breeding in Turkey (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Huseyin Velioglu
Development’s milk recording in Morocco (Case Study: Benslimane’s Mabrouka Cattle Breeders Cooperative) (Full manuscript)
Nadia Mousili
Automatic milking and milk production recording in New Zealand (Full manuscript)
Claudia Kamphuis
An overview of wished recording requirements to satisfy to the current evolution of milk recording organizations and selection programs in France (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Xavier Bourrigan
Why estimate what can be mesured? (Full manuscript)
Michal Basovník
Data quality points – an immediate and motivating supervision tool (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Heli Wahlroos
Friday, 23 May
ICAR Main Session: IT, MS4
Chair: Neil Petreny
User experiences of a herd management programme in a mobile device (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Juho Kyntäjä
MyAgSource: An online decision aid and herd management analysis tool developed to address the changing information management needs of US dairy producers and consultants (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Robert Fourdraine
Data on the hoof – Collecting herd management data amongst the cows (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Suzanne Harding
Automatic classification of eating and ruminating in cattle using an collar mounted accelerometer (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Craig Michie
New trends in data capture and exchange solutions between farms and external partners: The French situation (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Béatrice Balvay
Data exchange with robots and sensors: Achievements and prospects of the Animal Data Exchange initiative (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Erik Rehben
Rinderdatenverbund „RDV“ – IT-Network- Solution for 2 million cows in Austria and Germany (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Fritz Gollé-Leidreiter
Use of a data warehouse in animal husbandry and animal breeding (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Reinhard Reents
ICAR Dairy Sheep and Goats, S2
Chair: Jean-Michel Astruc
Ziegendatenverbund „ZDV“ – IT-Network- Solution for goat performance recording in Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Klaus Droessler
Sheep breeding in the Czech Republic (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Pavel Bucek
National sheep and goats breeding program of Turkey and Sheep and Goats Breeders Association‘s collaboration system (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
İrfan Daskiran
Lactation length and milk yield of Alpine goat in Slovenia (Full manuscript)
Drago Kompan
Milk production and composition of „Beni Arouss“ North Moroccan local goat (Full manuscript)
Samira El Otmani
Heritability of persistency traits and their genetic correlations with milk yield and udder morphology in dairy sheep (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Antonello Carta
Genomic selection in French dairy sheep: Main results and design to implement genomic breeding schemes (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Francis Barillet
Genomic evaluation validation test proposed by Interbull is necessary but not sufficient because it does not check the correct genetic trend (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Jean-Michel Astruc
The Norwegian healthier goats project (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Dag Lindheim
Appraisal of the selection plan for scrapie resistance in the Sarda dairy sheep breed (Presentation as PDF │Full manuscript)
Sotero Salaris
FUTURE ICAR MEETINGS
- Presentation of the ICAR Technical Meeting, Krakow (Poland),10-12 June 2015
- Presentation of 40th ICAR Biennial Session, Puerto Varas (Chile) 2016
MEETING OF ICAR BOARD WITH CHAIRPERSONS OF SUB-COMMITTEES AND WORKING GROUPS (23 MAY 2014)
Introduction and Agenda (B. Wickham)
Animal Identification SC
Interbull SC
Milk Analysis SC
Recording Devices SC
Animal Data Exchange WG
Animal Welfare Recording WG
Dairy Cattle Milk Recording WG
Goat performance recording WG
Interbeef WG
Parentage Recording WG
Performance recording of dairy sheep