Source: Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council news release
More than 200 Dairy Cattle Reproduction Council (DCRC) members from 27 U.S. states, four Canadian provinces and 11 countries gathered in person (Middleton, Wis.) and virtually, Nov. 15-17, for the group's 2022 annual...
Source: Holstein Association USA
Genetic evaluations for Productive Life, Somatic Cell Score and Net Merit Dollars of bulls have been available in the U.S. since January 1994. This information is reported for bulls in Sections 1 and 2. Similar genetic...
Source: Pennsylvania State University
Author: Andrew Sandeen
The use of beef sires in dairy herds has increased dramatically in recent years. McWhorter et al. (2020) noted that the number of matings of beef breed sires to dairy cows more than doubled...
Source: Elsevier
Genetic selection is a powerful tool to improve livestock production, given that genetic gains are cumulative and permanent, and feeding behavior in cows may be used as an indicated trait for feed efficiency.
In a new report in the Journal...
Source: Frontiers Journal
Jan Pieter VAN DER BERG1 , Gijs A. KLETER1 , Evy BATTAGLIA1 , Martien A. M. GROENEN2 , Esther J. KOK1
Author information -
1. Wageningen Food Safety Research, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AE Wageningen, the Netherlands
2. Animal Breeding and Genomics, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AH...
Source: International Milk Genomics Consortium, Peter Williamson, Ph.D.
Sequencing the bovine genome has made genomic selection of dairy cows possible.
Incorporating genomics into herd improvement schemes has markedly increased productivity and health traits.
Rates of genetic change increased by 50–100%...
Source: Genome Canada
Genomics can help dairy farmers choose cattle stocks that increase milk production while also reducing methane emissions, which present a significant greenhouse gas challenge for the industry.
Around 30% of the anthropogenic methane production globally comes from dairy...
Source: Applied Animal Science
ABSTRACT
Objective
The objective was to evaluate the efficiency of single-step genomic BLUP (ssGBLUP) compared with conventional BLUP for milk yield in Thai-Holstein dairy cows.
Materials and Methods
Data included 130,195 test-day milk yield records from the first parity of...
Source: Lactanet
Producers and consumers around the globe have had an increased interest in A2 milk, mainly for its improved digestibility. But did you know there is another milk casein entering the niche market? Kappa Casein is known to play...
ABSTRACT
Resilience is the ability of cows to be minimally affected by disturbances, such as pathogens, heat waves, and changes in feed quality, or to quickly recover. Obvious advantages of resilience are good animal welfare and easy and pleasant management...
