International Representation

International Representation

ICBF participates in a number of international activities relevant to cattle breeding. These include:

• Membership of ICAR - the International Committee of Animal Recording. This organisation plays a major role in establishing guidelines for animal recording and provides a range of services including:
  • The Patenting and Sentinel Action Service - website providing information related to patents relevant to animal breeding organisations.
  • A recording devices testing and certification service under the guidance of its Recording Devices Sub-Committee.
  • A milk testing laboratory service under the guidance of its Milk Testing Laboratories Sub-Committee.
  • ICAR's newsletter is available here.
  • Ireland will be hosting the 2012 session of Interbull and ICAR from Monday 28th May to Friday 1st June. Further information can be found here.
  • Copies of presentations at previous meetings in Niagara (2008) can be found here, and in Riga (2010) can be found here.
• Membership of Interbull - a sub-committee of ICAR that provides international genetic evaluation service for cattle.
• Membership of the Interbeef Working Group of ICAR. Brian Wickham is Chairperson of this group which is charged with the task of developing a prototype international evaluation service for the beef breeds and traits.
• Membership of EFFAB - an independent European forum of farm animal reproduction and selection organisations in cattle and other species.
• Code of good practise for use by cattle breeding organisations in Europe.
• Farm Animal Breeding and Reproduction Technology Platform (FABRE-TP).
• Regular participation in the World Congress of Genetics Applied to Livestock Production - The next meeting will be in Vancouver in 2014. The most recent meeting was in 2010 in Germany.

• Regular participation in the meetings of EAAP - the European Association of Animal Production. The 62nd Annual Meeting of EAAP took place in Stavanger, Norway.  The next meeting will be 27-31 August 2012 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

• ICBF is a partner in OptiMIR, an Interreg funded project.

 

20th September 2011