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35^th ICAR Session presentations (as PDF file)

7 June

• Innovative uses of milk in human nutrition and health (P. Jelen)

• Milk production, animal recording, dairy advisory services and cattle breeding in Finland (K. Lampinen)

Workshop 1: Improving the health traits by recording and evaluation (Chairman: E. Strandberg)

• Health recording, past and the future (V. Rainio)

• Use of health data in genetic evaluation and breeding (G. Pedersen Aamand)

• Establishing a health monitoring system for cattle in Austria (C. Egger-Danne)

• Use of the transition cow index as a monitor of herd health (P. Giacomini)

Workshop 2: Manufacturers Showcase (Chairman: F. Armitage)

• Bentley Instruments (P. Broutin)

• DeLaval (O. Lind)

• NRS (P. Galesloot)

• Fullwood (J. Baines)

• Foss Analytical (S. Kold-Christensen)

8 June

Session 2.1: New strategies for milk recording and testing (Chairman: U. Lauritsen)

• New strategies for milk recording and testing. ”Challenges in Milk Recording 2006” (Niels Henning Nielsen)

• Milk recording as a decision support system for the commercial farmer - Ireland developments (M. Burke)

• The use of monthly herd-test-day solutions of test-day model in dairy herd management web-tool, "Maitoisa" (J. Nousiainen)

• Renewed estimation method for 24-hour fat percentage in AM/PM milk recording scheme (R.M.G. Roelofs)

• Use of daily milk weight to predict lactation and 24-hour yields (K.J. Hand)

• Screening for subclinical ketosis in dairy cattle by Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (A.P.W. de Roos)

• Calculation of the lactation performance from daily milk recording data (N. Wirtz)

Session 2.2.1: Performance recording for small ruminants (Chairman: J.M. Astruc)

• Taking into account functional traits in dairy sheep breeding programs through the French example (F. Barillet)

• AMNOS-mobile: Exploiting handheld computers in efficient sheep recording (Z. Abas)

• Effect of diet supplemented omega-3 fatty acid on goat milk composition and somatic cell count (D. Kompan)

Session 2.2.2: Performance recording of buffaloes (Chairman: L. Journaux)

• Genetic gain of milk production in Egyptian buffalo as affected by population size, nucleus size and selection intensity in open nucleus breeding scheme (S.A Abdel-Salam)

Session 3.1: ID techniques (Chairman: R. Pauw)

• Rules and methodology used to certify cattle parentage in France (J. Guerrier)

• KvikKoen, mobile solution (J. Frandsen)

• Farmers can maintain their cattle identification register data using WebElmer (G. Karell)

• Ear tag retention in cattle (R. Palva)

• The use of electronic ear tags for sheep in France (L. Marguin)

Session 3.2: Management of recording and evaluation organisations (Chairman: D. Abernety)

• Report of the ICAR WG on Benchmarking (N. Petreny)

• Affordable way of calibrating milk-meters (M. Capasso)

• Milking machines control: the calibration of flowometer, pulsometer and vacuometer instruments with traceability of measurement (S. Orlandini)

• Composite traits and International genetic evaluation (F: Canavesi)

• Innovation in New Zealand herd improvement practices: how livestock improvement is responding to a changing world (S. Howse)

Session 3.3: Feeding strategies (Chairman: D. Abernety)

• NorForTM - the new Nordic feed evaluation system for cattle (J. Hanssen)

• Artturi^® - a portal for farmers and experts to improve grass silage production and utilization (M. Rinne)

• The effect of different levels of concentrates in dairy cattle rations in different stages of lactation on milk yield and physiological state of animals (N.A. Solomakha)

9 June

Session 4: Presentations of SCs, WGs and TFs reports (N. Petreny)

• Report of the ICAR SC on animal identification (R. Pauw)

• Report of the ICAR SC Interbull (J.C. Mocquot)

• Report of the ICAR SC recording devices (U. Lauritsen)

• Report of the ICAR TF developing countries (M. Guellouz)

• Report of the ICAR TF on DNA (P. Ajmone)

• Report of the ICAR WG on animal recording data (F. Armitage)

• Report of the ICAR WG lactation calculation method (F. Miglior)

• Report of the ICAR WC on milk testing laboratories (O. Leray)

• Report of the ICAR WG on conformation recording (D. Hewitt)

• Report of the ICAR WG on functional traits (E. Strandberg)

• Report of the ICAR WG on beef performance recording (L. Journaux)

• Report of the ICAR WG on AI & other relevant technologies (A. Malafosse)

• Report of the ICAR WG on milk recording in sheep (J.M. Astruc)

• Report of the ICAR WG on milk recording in goats (D. Kompan)

Session 5: New technologies (F. Miglior)

• Perspectives for proactive dairy herd management based on on-farm milk analysis and potential implications for future milk recording (T. Asmussen)

• DHI Delivers Leading Edge Technology" (J.S. Clay)

• InCalf fertility focus report - a new herd management tool for farmers and their advisers (S. Little)

• Potential estimation of fatty acid content in cow milk by mid-infrared spectrometry (H. Soyeurt)

• Internet application "VeeManager": Spider in the web of milkrecording and herd bookregistration (E.J. van `t Land)

• Next-day results in bovine mastitis diagnostics using DNA technology and electronic reporting (P. Bredbacka)

6 June

FAO - ICAR Seminar - Session 1 (Chairman: R. Pauw)

• Welcome address by ICAR and FAO (J. Juga & A. Speedy)

• Role and work of ICAR Sub-Committee - Animal Identification (R. Pauw)

• Veterinary surveillance and livestock development issues in Eastern Europe. (A. Speedy & J. Domenech, FAO)
  (Translation into Russian)

• Legislative Reguirements for identification and registration of bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animals in European Union (K.U. Sprenger, EU)
  (Translation into Russian)

• OIE works on identification and traceability of live animals (D. Chaisemartin, OIE)

• Introduction of the Finnish system of veterinary surveillance and livestock development (R. Maijala)
  (Translation into Russian)

• Planning experiences of animal I&R and livestock development in Central and Eastern European countries (F. Schmitt)
  (Translation into Russian)

• Experiences from animal I&R project implementation in FYR Macedonia (V. Kondratenko & S. Kulisevski)

Session 2 (Chairman: A. Speedy)

• State of art reports from participating countries

• Belarus (O. Hvostova)

• Ucraina (D. Mykytyk)

• Moldova (R. Ciobanu)

• Armenia (H. Hakobyan)

• Azerbaijan (T. Atazade)

• Georgia (L. Ramishvili)

• Russian Federation

• Discussion on thematic conclusions & recommend (Chair A. Speedy, FAO)

• Closing of the seminar (FAO Rep. & R.Pauw)

Meeting of ICAR Reference Laboratory Network (Chairman: O. Leray)

• ICAR AQA strategy and prospective for the network; Olivier Leray (FR)

• Implementation of the ICAR AQA system Enhancement of the ICAR AQA system – Prospect Information on Quality assurance policy of ICAR and view on milk analysis aspects; Andrea Rosati (It)

• Reference system - Principle and practice; Christian Baumgartner (DE)

• Reference and calibration systems for routine milk testing - Advantages / disadvantages, choice criteria; Olivier Leray (FR)

• Example of national reference system and centralised calibration; Jere High (USA)

• What would be the required accuracy of a milk test and its components with view on genetic progress; Hans Wilmink (NL)

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