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Table of contents Page Opening Opening speech by the President...............................................................................................3 The President’s report on the activities of ICAR since the last session.........................................5

• J. Crettenand

Technical Session 1: Keynote Presentations Cattle breeding in Switzerland .................................................................................................13 Summary of Markus Zemp’s speech Classical performance recording and marker selection .............................................................19 K.A. Weigel Performance recording in developing countries: an overview ....................................................25 K.R. Trivedi Performance recording: different strategies and breeders’ needs ...............................................41 D.A. Funk Does breeding for high milk yield mean breeding for more health problems ...............................47

• B. Heringstad, G. Klemetsdal & T. Steine

Parallel Technical Session 2.1: Use of Data from Permanent Milk Recording and Automatic Milking Systems for Official Performance Recording Milk recording and automatic milking systems: simplification by reducing the daily time test from 24 to 12 hours..............................................................57

• N. Bouloc, V. Dervishi & J. Delacroix

Methods to estimate 24-hour yields for milk, fat and protein in robotic milking herds ....................................................................................65

• D. Lazenby, E. Bohlsen, K. J. Hand, D.F. Kelton,
• F. Miglior & K.D. Lissemore

Electronic dataflow between a dairy farm and the central recording system. Practical experience in using data from milk meters (standard and robot) for milk recording ....................................................73 H.J. Van der Beek Milk recording in herds with daily milk measurement and/or robotic milking: The Finnish solution .........................................................................79

• J. Kyntäjä & S. Tommila

Experiences in carrying out milk recording with milking robots (AMS)......................................83

• H. Jürgens

Transformation of AMS records to 24-hour equivalents ...........................................................87

• A. Buenger, T. Pasman, E. Bohlsen & F. Reinhardt

Parallel Technical Session 2.2: National Animal Tracing Database and Their Use for Breeding Purposes Utilisation of the French national animal tracing system by breeder organisations .......................97

• E. Rehben, L. Marguin & B. Piednoir

Swiss Animal Tracing Database: Set-up, experiences and objectives for the future ..................101

• F. Schmitz-Hsu

National animal tracing databases and their use for breeding purposes ....................................105

• D. Evans

Übernahme von Meldedaten (VVVO) in die Milchleistungsprüfung ........................................107

• K. Kuwan & E. Bohlsen

Tissue Database: The basis for tracing of origin ...................................................................... 113

• R. Porzig

Tissue bank: A basis for future breeding strategies .................................................................. 117 C.-St. Schäfer, K.-U. Götz & R. Reents Parallel Technical Session 3.1: Performance Recording of Beef Traits Use of commercial slaughterhouse data in beef cattle breeding ...............................................123

• C. Stricker, M. Berweger, Y. Schleppi & R. Schwager-Suter

Prospects for an international beef breeds genetic evaluation system and the implications for ICAR. A view from users ..................................................131 J.-N. Bonnet The ICAR questionnaire for beef recording. Statistics and trends ...........................................135

• L. Journaux, H. J. Schild & A. Grogan

First experiences with an across country genetic evaluation system for beef cattle ...................139

• A. Reverter, D.J. Johnston & H.-U. Graser

Heteroskedasticity and genotype by environment interaction across European countries for weaning weight in Charolais breed.................................................147

• R. Quintanilla, D. Laloë & G. Renand

New developments in beef recording (and its possible benefits)..............................................151

• J. van der Westhuizen, L Bergh & A. Grogan

Parallel Technical Session 3.2: Recording of Functional Traits: State of the Art and Alternatives Systems Recording disease and reproductive events in dairy cattle for developing national health and fertility selection indices ......................................................157 H.N. Kadarmideen IT Solutions for disease surveillance and management in New Zealand ...................................163

• D. Hayes & M. Jeffries

Standards of recording management, health and fertility information ........................................171 R.J. Esslemont & M.A. Kossaibati PocketDairy: Dairy herd management software for the palm computer ...................................185 D.W. Webb, P.A. Dukas & J.S. Clay Organisation of recording and control of data used in France to evaluate calving ease and birth weight in dairy and beef cattle ........................................189

• L. Journaux, H. Ledos, M. Mathevon, S. Mattalia & O. Leudet

Associations between milkability and udder health on the basis of LactoCorder-data from milk recorded farms in Bavaria ........................................193

• J. Duda

Technical Session 4: Presentation of ICAR Sub-Committees, Task Force and Working Groups ICAR Sub-Committees, Task Force and Working Groups ....................................................199

• A. Rosati

Report of the Sub-Committee on Animal Identification ...........................................................209

• R. Pauw

Animal Recording Data Working Group ................................................................................217

• F. Armitage

Report of the ICAR Sub-Committee on Milk Meters and Jars ...............................................221

• A. Rosati

Report of the ICAR Working Group on Lactation Calculation

• Methods. Review and update of guidelines for milk recording............................................227
• F. Miglior, S. de Roos, Z. Liu, M. Mathevon, A. Rosati,

L.R. Schaeffer & P. VanRaden ICAR Working Group on Milk Testing Laboratories. Biennial report of activities in 2000-2001..........................................................................233

• O. Leray

Report of the Chairperson of the ICAR Conformation Working Group ..................................239

• D. Hewitt

Report of the ICAR Working Group on Functional Traits. Report of activities from May 2000 to May 2002 .............................................................241 Ab F. Groen Report on activities of the ICAR Working Group on Beef Recording .....................................243 H.J. Schild Interbull Report for 2000 and 2001.......................................................................................253 J.C Mocquot, U. Emanuelson & J.Philipsson ICAR Working Group on AI and other relevant technologies. Summary Report 2002 ............263

• A. Malafosse

ICAR recommendations for quality assurance in recording and evaluation ..............................267

• J. Juga

Report of the Task Force on Development Fund ...................................................................271 K.R. Trivedi Report of the Working Group on Milk Recording of Sheep....................................................273 J.M. Astruc, F. Barillet, M. Fioretti, D. Gabiña, E. Gootwine, A.P. Mavrogenis, F.J. Romberg, S.R. Sanna & E. Stefanake ICAR Working Group on Sheep Meat, Fibre and Fertility .....................................................289

• R. Banks

Report of Working Group on Milk Recording in Goats ..........................................................297

• D. Kompan

Report of the Working Group on Milk Performance Recording of Buffalo ..............................307

• B. Moioli & M. Sajjad Khan

Technical Session 5: Mixed Session with Emphasis on New Technologies On-line milk component sensing ............................................................................................321

• R. Claycomb, G. Mein, D. Whyte & A. Wilson

Experiments in automatic ovulation prediction in dairy cows ...................................................327

• T. Mottram & M. Velasco-Garcia

Implications of electronic cattle identification for milk recording in Australia.............................333 P.J. Bailey, R. Poole & A.G. Britt Dairymetrics – A web-based dairy records benchmarking tool for centrally processed DHIA herds ...........................................................................337 D.W. Webb, C.N. Vierhout & J.S. Clay Robotic solutions for DHI laboratories ..................................................................................343

• D. Johnston

Aspects of Analytical Quality Assurance (AQA) related to

• n-farm testing of milk components in DHI-schemes .........................................................351
• C. Baumgartner, H. van den Bijgaart, E. Brenne, O. Leray,
• U. Paggi, G. Psathas, J. Rhoads & D. Johnston

Carcass video imaging – A new tool for beef recording ..........................................................357 H.J. Schild, M. Brka & I. Medjugorac

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