ICAR Insights January 2022

ICAR Insights: Quarter IV 2021

ICAR Conferences  

• PROCEEDINGS ICAR ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021 – The Proceedings of the ICAR 44th Annual Conference (2021) held in April have been published (Circular farming and its impact on animal genetics, animal recording of data and cattle / herd management) . G. de Jong, K. de Koning, H. van den Bijgaart, M. Burke and C. Mosconi (Eds). ISSN: 1563-2504 ISBN: 978-92-95014-20-6 while Abstracts and presentations plus the videos of the ICAR 2021 Annual Conference have been made available on the site for free downloading.

• CALL FOR PAPERS ICAR ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022 – The Call for Papers the ICAR 2022 Annual Conference (Montreal, Canada, May 30 – June 3, 2022) is now open and the deadline for the submission is February 14th.

  The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the ICAR 2022 Conference is now open! We are looking for the submission of abstracts to eight

  The participants must use the dedicated platform for submitting their abstracts – each session is clearly defined. The link to that platform is: https://www.agora-abstracts.com/en/abstracts/ICAR2022 and then, we invite you to follow the instructions. If you have questions about this Call for abstracts, the procedures or not sure about the session to apply to, please contact: info@icar2022.ca.

  Technical sessions – eight exciting opportunities to present your recent technical advances in the domains of animal welfare, feed and gas, sustainability and artificial intelligence to name a few. A summary of the topic of each session is outlined on the website of the event at https://www.icar2022.ca/abstracts.

ICAR Guidelines

• The translations of the Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 of the ICAR Claw Health Atlas have been published for the following languages

  • Spanish (Appendix 1 and Appendix 2)

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    Estonian (Appendix 1 and Appendix 2)

  • German (Appendix 1 and Appendix 2)

• The Sheep, Goats and Camelids Working Group, chaired by Jean-Michel Astruc, produced a new set of Guidelines (Section 21) on: “Meat, reproduction and maternal trait in sheep and goats”

• Animal data standard broadens its scope and utility by the new release of the version 1.2 of the Animal Data Exchange specification

ICAR Groups

• The ICAR Sustainability Task Force has been established and its composition is now available
  

ICAR Services

• ICAR announced the launch of the 2022 ICAR Proficiency Test for milk laboratories. Two rounds are planned, on 7 March and 5 September, while the second ICAR PT round of milk analysis laboratories has been finalised. Reports have been delivered to the participating laboratories and other information are available to ICAR users

• Following the webinar on the “Proficiency Test for milk laboratories: ICAR contribution to the worldwide traceability, a short contribution presents the main achievements from the webinar

• For the Associate Members and upon registration, an updated version of the statistical software to verify the milk meters has been released

• The 2021 accreditation round for the genetic laboratories for the STR-based parentage verification and SNP-based genotyping has been finalised

ICAR Members

• Xenética Fontao (Spain) and DataGene (Australia) successfully granted the

  

• accreditation as DNA Data Interpretation Centre

•  Department of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security (Botswana) and
  FarmChamps GmbH & Co. KG. (Germany) joined ICAR as a Full Members

• CONVIS (Luxembourg) and Tine

•  (Norway) successfully renewed the ICAR Certificate of Quality 

• Informative material and presentations from the Animal Identification and Registration Systems (AIRS) – Mongolia

  

•  International Workshop have been published.