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- Breeding & Genetics
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- Health & Welfare
- Grass & Forage
- Nutrition
- Production Systems
- Completed Projects
- Across breed evaluations
- All weather cow tracks
- Calving Ease
- Crop Protection Priorities for forage and feed crops in light of proposed EU pesticide regulations and other changes
- DairyCo mobility score
- Desktop review of Greenhouse Gases
- Expanding Indices
- GR Micro test for ParaTB (08/09)
- Human resources templates
- Impact of bio-fuels on dairy feeding
- Labour efficiency report
- Labour productivity
- LINK Woodchip pads
- LISA Lupins
- Minimising slurry pooling in dairy housing
- Modelling of Greenhouse Gases
- Muck and Slurry on Clover swards
- Muscling on Holsteins
- Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) tests for farmyard manures
- Opportunites for new forage species
- Outwintering systems based on forage brassicas for replacement dairy heifers
- Para TB Tools
- Rearing options for Holstein bull calves to 12 weeks
- Reduce methane & nitrogen emission (Defra AC0209)
- Reducing heifer wastage in the dairy herd
- Reducing lameness in dairy cattle
- Ruminant nutrition regimes to reduce methane and nitrogen emissions
- Soil stabilisation
- Technology and your business
- Treatment and prevention of foot lameness in cattle
- Advisory Groups
- Research and Development Advisory Forum
- Forum Members
Across breeds evaluation
Published 9 September 09
This project analysed available data to discover if cross breeding evaluations could be successfully undertaken in the UK. It's starting point was the fact that other countries, most notably New Zealand, practise cross breeding, but it has not had a significant impact in the UK.
The main objectives of the project were;
- to adapt software to calculate breed proportions on a full national pedigree file
- adapt processes to to extract data for all breeds together
- produce summary statistics for all breed data
- review published data for across-breed parameters and methodologies
- prepare a dataset for genetic parameter calcuation for major breeds and crosses
- carry our preliminary model investigations on B&W dataset
- carry out preliminary genetic evaluation
Project completed: March 2008