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 61st Annual Meeting of EAAP which will take place in Heraklion on the island of Crete, from the 23rd to 27th of August 2010 and the 2011 meeting will be in Stavanger, Norway - 29 August - 1 September 2011.

 

19th August 2010