Where and when
The webinar was held on 23 May 2023, h. 8.30-13 (Paris time), broadcasting it from the ICAR 2023 Annual Conference in Toledo and organised by the ICAR Feed and Gas Working Group.
Presentation of the webinar
Methane is one of the main greenhouse gases contributing to global warming. Individual methane emission of cattle is a novel trait, that gains importance in sustainable cattle breeding programes.
Recording individual methane emission on a large scale is expensive and labour intensive. Research projects are currently being carried out to investigate and evaluate the accuracy and feasability of different recording techniques including phenotypic analysis of the methane trait and followed by genetic analysis to determine the genetic background.
The workshop aims to bring interested stakeholders, scientists and technicians together working in the field of recording and anlysing individual methane emission of cattle. The aim is to share experience and hands-on tips about how to record individual methane emission, phenotypic and genetic analysis of different methane phenotypes.
Videos of the speeches
Measuring methane emissions and feet intake for the Norwegian Red cows in commercial herds
Karoline Bakke
Greenfeed and sniffer SOP report
Lorenzo Benzoni, Raffaella Finocchiaro e Birgit Gredler-Grandl
Low methane beef project
Tom Granleese, Christian Duff and Sam Clark
Measuring methane in young bull: progress to date and next step
Lorna McNaughton and Peter Elzakker
Analysis of methane measured in young dairt sires after accounting for variation in dry matter intake
Rhiannon Handcook
Dairy bull methane emission performance test: the ANAFIBJ experience
Raffaella Finocchiaro and Lorenzo Benzoni
Towards selecting for low-emitting dairy cows in Denmark
Coralia Manzanilla Pech
Milk MIR spectra to estimate individual methane emissions: strengths and limitations of a scalable model
A. Vanlierde, F. Dehareng, H. Soyeurt, N. Gengler
Variations in feed efficiency, intake and methane emissions among finishing beef cattle
Pablo Peraza Dos Santos
The long road to select for environmentefficiency traits
Filippo MIglior
Predicting methane emissions of individual grazing dairy cows from spectral analysis of their milk samples
Donagh Berry, m. Frizzarin, BLahart, M. Kennedy, L. Slalloo, M. Egan, K. Starsmore and S. McParland
Anouk van Breukelen