For the Krakow Technical Meeting (10-12 June 2015), the following files are available
- Proceedings (Published in the ICAR Technical Series no. 19)
- Presentations (hereby listed in this page)
- Book of Abstracts
- Pictures
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
- Polish agri-food sector: basic facts (Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development)
- Polish Federation of Cattle Breeders and Dairy Farmers: General overview of activity
Technical session I: What else can we learn from milk sample? Chairman: Zygmunt Maciej Kowalski
- Global experience on ketosis screening by FTIR technology (Daniel Schwarz)
- New Milk Mid-FTIR Metrics For Dairy Cattle Management (David Barbano)
- Prediction of the risk of ketosis using mid inf rared spectrometry. (Marine Gelé)
- Novel model of monitoring of subclinical ketosis in dairy herds in Poland based on monthly milk recording and estimation of ketone bodies in milk by FTIR spectroscopy (Zygmunt Kowalski)
- Experience of milk based farm monitoring of LPT Ltd. (László Dégen)
- Monitoring the mammary gland health status during lactating and drying off periods using Milk Amyloid A measurement in bovine milk. Applications: evaluation of mastitis treatment efficiency and prediction of the dry cow antibiotic therapy necessity. (Cyril Crosson)
- Pregnancy detection from milk samples obtained for routine milk yield measurements (Attila Monostori)
- Estimation of the prevalence of Subacute ruminal acidosis in dairy herds (Romain Guegan)
Technical session II: Advisory services built on recording data Chairman: Neil Petreny
- The advice organisation in dairy herds: Example in a Milk Recording Organisation from West of France (Christophe Bruand)
- Dirty Data the cause of an Emerging Disease in Cattle Farming. Is There Any Proof? (Kristof Hermans)
- Benchmarking in Dairy Production “How to transform data to valuable decision support” (Johannes Frandsen)
- Smart Dairy Farming: InfoBroker bases for Sharing Data and Chain Cooperation (Pieter Hogewerf)
- Operative Background of the Hungarian Farm Monitoring System Based on Milk and TMR Analyses (Orsolya Petrák)
- Web advisor y tools to support dairy production in Slovenian herds (Betka Logar)
- SIEL WEB (Quemener Stéphan)
- On farm recording of fer tility and health data using mobile devices (Tomasz Strabel)
Technical session III: Manufacturers showcase Chairman: Martin Burke
- Update on the Implementation of ICAR Animal Data Exchange Standards (Robert Fourdraine)
- Experiences from routine checking and installation of milk meters with ICAR approved calibration software module from DeLaval (Olle Selander)
- Detection of Pregnancy-Associated Glycoproteins in Routine Milk Recording Samples (Christoph Egli)
- Blood BHB determination by infrared spectroscopy for the monitoring of the cows metabolic activity and detection of ketosis. (Pierre Broutin)
- MooMonitor+ Smart Sensing Technology & Big Data – Resting time as an indicator for welfare status on farms. (Jiska Roessen)
- AUTOPESEE, a French automatic weighing scales developed for the beef cattle performance recording (Laurent Griffon)
- Increasing the value and traceability of milk samples with NFC technology: SmartLY (Eric Guemene)
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Technical session IV: Milk recording in cattle, meat and fibre performance in sheep, goats and beef cattle. Chairman: Laurent Journaux and Pavel Bucek
- Worldwide Trends in Milk Recording in Cattle (Pavel Bucek)
- Worldwide Trends in Milk Recording: Milk Recording and New Technologies (Juho Kyntäjä)
- World Trends in Milk Recording Management and Organization (Karl Zottl)
- Innovations in Sheep Performance Recording in New Zealand (Andrew Cooke)
- Organization of milk recording in goats in France (Agnes Piacere)
- Beef Data Recording in Ireland: Current Experience and Future Potential of an Industry Integrated National Database. (Christopher Daly)
- Implementation of new milk recording practises in Finland (Heli Wahlroos)
Technical session V: Genomics at farm and phenotyping strategies Chairman: Mike Coffey
- Recording of claw and foot disorders in dairy cattle: current role and prospects of the international harmonization initiative of ICAR (Christa Egger-Danner)
- Efficient Cow – Strategies for on-farm collecting of phenotypes for efficiency traits (Franz Steininger)
- SNP selection for nationwide parentage verification and identification in beef and dairy cattle (Matthew McClure)
- Phenotypic associations and genetic correlations between claw health disorders and, milk production, fertility, somatic cell score and type traits in Holstein Spanish dairy cattle. (Noureddine Charfeddine)
- Guidelines to measure individual feed intake of dairy cows for genomic and genetic evaluations (Roel Veerkamp)
- Maximizing Genetic Progress in the New Age of Genomics (Robert Fourdraine)
Technical session VI: CoQ auditors’ workshop Chairman: Charl Hunlun
- COQ Auditors’ Workshop (Charl Hunlun)
- Data requirements for management and breeding purposes in dairy cattle (Friedrich Reinhardt)
- Main conclusions from Session VI
Technical session VII: Joint session
A summary of all parallel meetings organized on following topics:
- Welfare and health – FIL/IDF SCAHW
- Reference Laboratory Network
- Satellite workshop on the Methods for survey and monitoring metabolic which are used by Milk Recording Organizations