Web site
All the latest information about the ICAR Annual Conference 2024 in Bled can be found in the web site available here.
Registration page
The LOC advises that the Registration page is now open. The page is available here
Call for Abstracts
Committees of the ICAR Conference 2024 invite you to submit your Abstract to be presented at the conference. The page with more information is available here.
The deadline for the abstract submission is Monday 1 March, 2024.
General topic of the ICAR Annual Conference is: “Sustainable Livestock production systems in a New Era ”
Please, read the guidelines here to prepare your abstract before proceeding with the submission through the online submission form.
Sessions / Topics
The LOC is looking for the submission of abstracts to various technical sessions indicated below. These sessions are offering an exciting opportunity to present your recent technical advances in the domain in animal identification, milk production recording and evaluation, milk analysis, animal health and animal welfare, feed and gas, sustainability and artificial intelligence etc.
- Joint ICAR/Interbull Session: Data collection for Beef on Dairy
- Session 1: WG Animal Data Exchange – Decision Support Tools of the Future – Promoting Sustainability Farm Management
- Session 2: SC Milk Analysis – New tools to extend the horizon of milk mid-infrared spectrometry
- Session 3a / 3b: MRSD-SC – Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Recording Day
- Session 4: SC Animal Identification – Value Adding to Electronic Identification
- Session 5: SC Milk Analysis – How to relate on farm sustainability and milk analysis?
- Session 6: SC Dairy Cattle Milk Recording – Presentation and evaluation of new analytical parameters in herd management for dairy farms
- Session 7: WG Sheep, Goats and Camelids – Breeding for agro-ecological transition in sheep and goats
- Session 8: WG Feed&Gas – Global Methane Hub
- Session 9: WG DNA – Genomic’s impact on Livestock Sustainability
- Session 10: WG Functional Traits – New approaches in the field of functional traits for management and breeding
- Session 11: What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and why does it matter for cattle?
Authors are committed to provide a draft of the accepted manuscript by 15 May 2024 that can be integrated in the final version that must be submitted by 30 September 2024 for publication in the Proceedings as an ICAR Technical Series.
Template for preparing the manuscript is available here .
Authors will be informed at a later stage about how to submit the manuscript. All manuscripts will be made available on the ICAR website, unless differently expressed during the submission process.
Relevant dates
- Deadline for Abstract submission: 10 March, 2024
- Acceptance/rejection of the abstract: 25 March, 2024
- Registration of the presenting author: 31 March, 2024
- Draft manuscript in Word: 15 May, 2024
- Final Manuscript in Word: 30 September, 2024