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The Animal Fibre Task Force prepared new
Guidelines for the Alpaca:
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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)
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New pages on
Transceivers conforming to ISO11784/11785 have
been added
- Synchronising transceivers
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Non-synchronising transceivers
(11 March 2008)
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The Genetic Analysis
Working Group is proposing the following corrections
to the ICAR Guidelines:
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The following are the proposed corrections to
the Guidelines on Section 10
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The programme for the Special sessions on
Artificial Insemination planned for 19 at
Niagara Falls ICAR Session is available
here
(7-March-2008)
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ICAR Newsletter - December 2007
(24-Dc-2007)
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Minutes of the Meeting of the Working
Group on Artificial Insemination & Other
Relevant Technologies, held in Dublin, 22
August 2007
(30-Dec-2007)
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Two new documents have been made available (PDF
file):
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The corrections to the ICAR Recording
Guidelines to be approved by the General
Assembly in Niagara Falls,
are
available here (10-Dec-2007)
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New Working Groups have been added (Animal
Fibre,
Interbeef and
Parentage Recording )(4-Dec-2007)
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Preliminary programme for 36th ICAR
Session and Meeting (30-Nov-2007)
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List of the laboratories with ICAR
accreditation for parenthood recording
(21-Sept-2007)
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Acknowledgments
by Hans-Gerhard Wagner (Secretary of APHCA)
for Workshop animal identification and
traceability (26-July-2007)
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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)
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The files
presented at Verona Technical Meeting are
available (3-June-2007)
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The last version
of the
ICAR Guidelines, approved by the
General Assembly held in Kuopio, Finland in June
2006 is available (24-May-2007).
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The instructions (updated
to May
2007) on how to perform the "Periodic
checking of approved and provisionally approved
meters. Hints for the sample taker and farmer"
are avaialble (24-May-2007)
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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)
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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)
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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).
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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)
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Updatings on Sub-Committee for Recording
Devices, by Uffe Lauritsen. (30-Nov-2006)
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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)
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The ICAR Board established the
President's Award and the
Distinguished Service Certificate
(29-Oct-2006)
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A new site
by ICAR: Patenting Sentinel and Action Service -
PSAS (7-Aug-2006)
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The
up-dated By-Laws approved in
Kuopio by the General Assembly are now
available only in English (18-July-2005)
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The
transaltions into Russian of the FAO-ICAR
Seminar (Kuopio, 6 June) are available
(4-July-2006)
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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)
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The page of the
Milk Testing
Laboratories Working Group has been updated
after the decision taken in Kuopio
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The results of the "Cow
milk yearly enquiry" for the years 2003-2004
(20-June-2006)
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The
PowerPoint files presented at the last 35th
ICAR biennial session held in Kuopio, Finland
(20-June-2006)
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The
Report of the meeting of the WG on Goat Milk
held in Sousse (Tunisia) in 2004, is now available
(15-May-2006)
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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)
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The on-line databases on "The
yearly sheep milk enquiry" is now available
(2-May-2006)
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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)
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Ollivier Leray submitted new information on
List of analytical methods
in milk recording (17-October-2005)
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Physiological and Technical Aspects of Machine
Milking, Nitra, Slovak Rep., 26-28 April 2005,
ICAR T.S. no. 10
(16-June-2005)
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ICAR Newsletter,
May 2005
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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:
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The
Report of the Second meeting of ICAR Reference
Laboratory Network was submitted by O. Leray (about
1.800 Kb) (20-09-2004).
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The site contains the Countries/Member
Organisations granted with the
ICAR Special Stamp
(23-June-2004).
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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).