-
France Génétique Elevage, TINE BA and University of
Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Dept. of Animal
Science have been
granted with the CoQ
(19-Aug-2010)
-
Next ICAR
Meeting: Bourg-en-Bresse, France (22-24 June-2011).
Website
here while flayer is
here
(17-Aug-2010)
-
The Association
Wallone de l'Elevage has been
granted with the CoQ for Dairy cattle production
recording
(June 2010)
-
The Czech Moravian Breeders'
Corporation Inc. (Czech Rep.) has
been
granted with the CoQ for
Identification
system and recording production in beef
cattle
(15-June-2010)
-
PowerPoint files presented in Riga 37th Session
have been published on the web
(7-June-2010)
-
The Croatian Agricultural Agency,
the Swedish Dairy Federation and the Slovak Breeding Services, and have been granted with the
Certificate of Quality
(24-May-2010)
-
ICAR
Newsletter May 2010 has been published
(15 May 201)
-
CRV BV join ICAR as new Member
(10 May 2010)
-
New file containing "Conditions
and Guidelines" relating to the ICAR Certificate
of Quality and the
Application form have been added
(16-Feb-2009)
-
A page about the new Working Group (called "Beef
and Interbeef WG") merging the previous WGs
(Beef Performance WG and Interbeef WG) has been
published
(11-Feb-2008)
-
Suzanne Harding replaces Dick Koorn as Chairman of
the Parentage Recording Working Group
(Jan. 2010)
-
The Beef Recording Working Group prepared a specific
Glossary
(27-Jan-2010)
-
Mongolia joint ICAR as new Member
(10-jan.-2010)
-
ICAR Newsletter December 2009
(17-Dec-2009)
-
37th ICAR Session, Riga, Latvia
(31 May - 4 June)
-
Official website
-
Call for Papers for ICAR Session (not for Interbull
Meeting)
-
Preliminary Programme
(14-Dec-2009)
-
Seven organisations granted the "Certificate of
Quality"
- Agricultural Data Centre
- CONVIS
- Deutscher Verband für Leistungs- und
Qualitätsprüfungen e.V. (DLQ)
- Estonian Animal Recording Centre
- Laboratorium Oceny Mleka KCHZ Laboratorium
Referencyjne z/s w Parzniewie (LOM KCHZ LR)
- VIT w.V.
- ZAR - Zentrale Arbeitsgemeinschaft
österreichischer Rinderzüchter (LKV-Ausschuss)
(13-Nov-2009)
-
The Guidelines for the "Periodic
checking of approved meters. Hints for the
sample taker and farmer" have been
up-dated
(11-Nov-2009)
-
ICAR Newsletter October 2009
(20 October 2009)
-
Five Organisations granted
with the CoQ and have been added to the ICAR
website, namely:
- Agricultural Research Council
- Cattle Information System
- Edinburgh Genetic Evaluation Services (EGENES)
- South African Studbook and Animal
Improvement Association
- Italian Animal Breeders' Association (AIA)
(24-Sept-2009)
-
The
NEW ICAR Guidelines approved at Niagara
Session are now available
(22-July-2009)
-
The persons awarded
during the ICAR Meeting held in Poreč,
Croatia were added to the web
(2-July-2009)
-
ICAR Newsletter July 2009.
(1-July-2009)
-
The synthesis of the ICAR
Guidelines for Animal Identification. has been added
to the site and
the
publication is available here
(15-June-2009)
-
The member composition of the SCs, WGs and TF
has been updated, following Porec Meeting
(4-6-2009)
-
Porec May 2009, Technical Meeting.
The PDF files pf the
presentations and
the pictures of the meeting have been
added
(25-May-2009)
-
ICAR Newsletter, May 2009, is now
available
(19-May-2009)
-
The
Results for the years 2006 and 2007 for
the Yearly
enquiry on the situation of cow milk recording
in member countries have been published
(27-Feb-2009)
-
The page of the Genetic Analysis Working Group
has been updated with the
new accredited laboratories
(19-Feb-2009)
-
The page of Milk Analysis SC contains the
updated list of reference laboratories,
the
Interlaboratory study programme 2009 and
the
Report of the 2006-2008 activities
(19-Feb-2009)
-
Royal Tag S.A. joint ICAR as Associate Member
(13-Feb-2009)
Proceedings Niagara
Falls 36th Biennial Session (13Mb)
(12-Jan-2008)
-
New version (Jan 2009) for the
Conditions and guidelines relating to the ICAR
Certificate of Quality
(10-01-2009)
-
Interbull Terms of Reference
(10-Dec-2008)
-
Four new organisations
joint ICAR
• ANABLE - Portugal;
•
Animal Breeding and Improvement
of Animal Production of Iran - Iran;
•
COOPRINSEM - Chile
•
SEIDIC S.A.-
Switzerland;
(24-Nov-2008)
-
The Conformation Working Group developed its
Terms of References and the
Working
Plan (After Niagara Meeting, June 2008)
(20-11-08)
-
ICAR Newsletter November 2008
(11-11-2008)
- 26-29 January 2009.
Interbull International Workshop on Genomic
Information in Genetic Evaluations,
Uppsala, Sweden
(23-Oct-2008)
-
Report of the
Fourth meeting of ICAR Reference Laboratory
Network (16 -20
June 2008, Niagara Falls, USA) has been
published
(12-Sept-2008)
-
The
manufacturer' codes page has been created with
an .asp database for allowing a more precise query
(18-08-08)
-
Two members have been granted with the
Certificate
of Quality
National Milk Records (UK) for Bovine
identification and production recording; and
ICBA (Israel) for Bovine identification,
production recording, laboratory and genetic
evaluation
(10-August-08)
-
Joseph Crettenand (President's Award)
Frank Armitage, Freddy Fikse, Alain Malafosse.
Guido Ongaro (Distinguished Service Award)
were awarded during the 36th
Session in Niagara Falls
(10-8-08)
-
The new ICAR Statutes as
approved by the General Assembly held in Niagara
Falls, USA on 20 June 2008
are avialble for now only in English
(11-8-08). The new By-laws are under preparation
-
ICAR Technical Series no. 8
"Development of Successful Animal Recording
Systems for Transition and Developing Countries",
Interlaken, Switzerland, 27 May 2002, jointly
organised with FAO-AGA, ICAR T.S. is
available also in Arabic
-
Pictures of Niagara Falls (ICAR 36th Session)
(8-July-2008)
-
ICAR Newsletter June 2008. It contains A word
from the President; 36th ICAR biennial session;
Proposals of the board for approval by the General
Assembly; News from the ICAR governing bodies,
Sub-Committees, Working Groups and Task Forces;
Use of the ICAR logo ; Tagging of recording
devices; International cooperation ; New associate
members of ICAR; Icar certificate of quality – how
to obtain it; Case of national milk recording;
From our patent sentinel and action service
(PSAS); 2009 General Assembly and the workshop on
management of animal recording and evaluation
(2-July-20074)
-
An
interactive map of the ICAR member countries is
available
here
(11 June 2008)
-
The draft version of the
Strategic Plan 2008-2012, to be presented in
Niagara Falls Session is available
here
(15-May-2008)
The Animal Fibre Task Force prepared new
Guidelines for the Alpaca:
-
The
Invitation and the
Programme for the 4th meeting of ICAR
Reference Laboratory Network that will be held
during the 36th ICAR Session in Niagara
Falls are available
(2-April-2008)
-
New pages on
Transceivers conforming to ISO11784/11785 have
been added
- Synchronising transceivers
-
Non-synchronising transceivers
(11 March 2008)
-
The Genetic Analysis
Working Group is proposing the following corrections
to the ICAR Guidelines:
-
The following are the proposed corrections to
the Guidelines on Section 10
-
The programme for the Special sessions on
Artificial Insemination planned for 19 at
Niagara Falls ICAR Session is available
here
(7-March-2008)
-
ICAR Newsletter - December 2007
(24-Dc-2007)
-
Minutes of the Meeting of the Working
Group on Artificial Insemination & Other
Relevant Technologies, held in Dublin, 22
August 2007
(30-Dec-2007)
-
Two new documents have been made available (PDF
file):
-
The corrections to the ICAR Recording
Guidelines to be approved by the General
Assembly in Niagara Falls,
are
available here (10-Dec-2007)
-
New Working Groups have been added (Animal
Fibre,
Interbeef and
Parentage Recording )(4-Dec-2007)
-
Preliminary programme for 36th ICAR
Session and Meeting (30-Nov-2007)
-
List of the laboratories with ICAR
accreditation for parenthood recording
(21-Sept-2007)
-
Acknowledgments
by Hans-Gerhard Wagner (Secretary of APHCA)
for Workshop animal identification and
traceability (26-July-2007)
-
The
ICAR Newsletter July 2007 contains: A word
from the President; ICAR General Assembly
2007; Provision of benefits to ICAR members;
News on cornell patent; ICAR recent
publications; Badi Besbes is a new member of
the ICAR board; Certificate of quality;
Special stamp; Awards; ICAR new members; 2007
Technical workshop , Verona, Italy, June 2007;
From the ICAR governing and technical bodies;
36th ICAR biennial session (20-7-2007)
-
The files
presented at Verona Technical Meeting are
available (3-June-2007)
-
The last version
of the
ICAR Guidelines, approved by the
General Assembly held in Kuopio, Finland in June
2006 is available (24-May-2007).
-
The instructions (updated
to May
2007) on how to perform the "Periodic
checking of approved
meters. Hints for the sample taker and farmer"
are avaialble (24-May-2007)
-
Development of animal
identification and recording systems for
veterinary surveillance and livestock development
in countries of Eastern Europe. Proceedings of the
ICAR/FAO Seminar held in Kuopio, Finland, 6 June
2006,
ICAR T.S. no.12. (30-April-2007)
-
In 2007, ICAR
organises a
Technical meeting in Verona, in conjunction with
the General Assembly.
The meeting will be
held from 30 May to 1 June 2007 (1-Apr-2007)
-
The ICAR Statutes, approved by the General
Assembly held in Kuopio Finland on 9 June 2006,
are available in
English (37 Kb),
French (51 Kb) and
German (49 Kb) (12-Feb-2007).
-
ICAR Newsletter January 2007. It contains a
Report from the 35th ICAR biennial session and Interbull
meeting; General Assembly, Kuopio, Finland, 7 June
2006 and the President’s report; New ICAR Board;
Decisions of the General Assembly; Amendments to
the ICAR statutes; ICAR Awards ; News from ICAR
Sub-Committees, Task Forces and Working Groups; A
survey on milk recording strategies; New
activities of ICAR; Next General Assembly (2007);
Next Biennial 36th Session (2008). (30-Jan-2007)
-
Updatings on Sub-Committee for Recording
Devices, by Uffe Lauritsen. (30-Nov-2006)
-
The Certificate of Quality is a new service
offered by ICAR. The new Certificates will replace
the ICAR Special Stamp which will be phased out by
July 2009 (29-Oct-2006)
-
The ICAR Board established the
President's Award and the
Distinguished Service Certificate
(29-Oct-2006)
-
A new site
by ICAR: Patenting Sentinel and Action Service -
PSAS (7-Aug-2006)
-
The
up-dated By-Laws approved in
Kuopio by the General Assembly are now
available only in English (18-July-2005)
-
The
transaltions into Russian of the FAO-ICAR
Seminar (Kuopio, 6 June) are available
(4-July-2006)
-
The results of "Beef
performance recording in 2004 (calves born in
2000)" are available (22-June-2006)
-
The
amendments to the Recording Guidelines are
available for comments/approval by the ICAR
Members (20-June-2006)
-
The page of the
Milk Testing
Laboratories Working Group has been updated
after the decision taken in Kuopio
-
The results of the "Cow
milk yearly enquiry" for the years 2003-2004
(20-June-2006)
-
The
PowerPoint files presented at the last 35th
ICAR biennial session held in Kuopio, Finland
(20-June-2006)
-
The
Report of the meeting of the WG on Goat Milk
held in Sousse (Tunisia) in 2004, is now available
(15-May-2006)
-
The Animal Identification Sub-Committee has
launched the "ICAR performance evaluation and
approval procedure for official permanent
identification devices (conventional permanent
plastic eartags)"
For more information, click here (15-May-2006)
-
The on-line databases on "The
yearly sheep milk enquiry" is now available
(2-May-2006)
-
The Conformation Recording Working Group, through David Hewitt, proposed some emendations to
the Recording Guidelines, (Section
5: Conformation recording of dairy cattle)
that will have to be adopted by the General
Assembly in Kuopio (8-March-2006)
-
The instructions on how to perform the "Periodic
checking of approved and provisionally approved
meters. Hints for the sample taker and farmer"
are now available (9-Nov-2005)
-
"The
Business Plan for the Implementation of
International Genetic Evaluation Services for
Beef Breeds and Traits by Interbull",
prepared by the Interbeef Task Force is now
available (9-Nov-2005)
-
Ollivier Leray submitted new information on
List of analytical methods
in milk recording (17-October-2005)
-
Physiological and Technical Aspects of Machine
Milking, Nitra, Slovak Rep., 26-28 April 2005,
ICAR T.S. no. 10
(16-June-2005)
-
ICAR Newsletter,
May 2005
-
The Benckmark service
has been launched (18-April-2005)
-
In order to facilitate and inform a candidate member
for the organisation of a biennial session, two
documents were prepared:
-
The
Report of the Second meeting of ICAR Reference
Laboratory Network was submitted by O. Leray (about
1.800 Kb) (20-09-2004).
-
The site contains the Countries/Member
Organisations granted with the
ICAR Special Stamp
(23-June-2004).
-
The PDF file containing the results of
“Survey
on recording and validation of bovine artificial
insemination data” is now available on this web
(6-May-2004).