Interbeef Working Group

Objectives

  1. Provide a forum for members of ICAR to collaborate, exchange information and learn from each other on all aspects of recording and genetic evaluation of beef breeds and traits of relevance to beef production.
  2. Maintain, update, promote and extend universal guidelines for the recording of performance and other data relevant to beef production world wide
  3. Conduct and report the results of periodic international surveys of beef recording and genetic evaluations.
  4. Develop, provide and promote a system and standards for routine international genetic evaluation of beef breeds and traits which will form the basis of the service that the Interbull Centre will provide to members of ICAR on a user-pays basis.
  5. Facilitate and co-ordinate international collaboration in research and development on the utilisation of genomic information in beef cattle breeding.

Interbeef is a Working Group of ICAR, with the objective of developing and promoting national and international evaluations of beef and dairy beef cattle.
The services are based on participating organizations, sharing phenotypes and pedigree to assist in the provision of the services.
The services to the members are then offered by the Interbull Centre, based in Uppsala, Sweden.
The current membership (at December 2020) includes 14 countries, 5 breeds (Charolais, Limousin, Simmental, Angus and Hereford), with a total of 42 million phenotypes in our services.

Interbeef services

Interbeef Services’ Users

Composition

Chairperson

  • TBD

Members

  • Anne Menrath, Fachbereich Zucht und Genetik, Germany
  • Gert Pedersen Aamand, Nordic Cattle Genetic Evaluation, Denmark, Finland and Sweden
  • Japie Van der Westhuizen, SA Stud Book and Animal Improvement Association, South Africa
  • Jo E Newton, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA), Agriculture Victoria Research, Australia ((Brian Wickham Young Persons Exchange Program Bursary, 2023)
  • Laurent Griffon, Institut de l’Elevage, France
  • Mart Uba, Eesti Põllumajandusloomade Jõudluskontrolli (EPJ), Estonia
  • Mauro Fioretti, Associazione Italiana Allevatori (AIA), Italy
  • Mike Coffey, Scottish Agricultural College, UK
  • Mojca Voljc, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Slovenia
  • Pedro Santos Vaz, Aberdeen-Angus Portugal, Portugal
  • Roel Veerkamp – Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands – Scientific Advisory Committee
  • Steve Miller, Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU), Australia
  • Svenja Strasser, Mutterkuh Schweiz, Switzerland
  • Dorian Garrick – Massey University, New Zealand – Scientific Advisory Committee

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