Come and join the network at a meeting to be held in Rotterdam on Sunday 3rd July 2022 from 1 to 5pm. We have a great line up of speakers and it promises to be a great opportunity to really discuss methods, and protocols for selection schemes for methane and feed related traits. Cost is 47 euros including lunch. Register through your existing WCGALP registration or email suzanne.rowe@agresearch.co.nz

Draft Agenda

Measuring Methane Microbes and Feed Intake for breeding schemes: Animal Selection Genetics and Genomics Network

De Doelen International Conference Center Rotterdam

 Sunday 3^rd July 13:00 – 17:00

Lunch 1300.

Anouk van Breukelen Using sniffers for large scale phenotyping of CH4 emissions in the Netherlands

Timothy Bilton Statistical strategies for the prediction of methane and feed intake from microbes in cattle and sheep

Nicolas Gengler Infrared based opportunities to assess rumen fermentation and feed Intake

Robert Banks Strategy for investing in Methane R&D and Mitigation

Julius van der Werf Facilitating selection for methane efficiency in South Australian cattle and sheep’

Coffee Break

Coralia Manzanilla Methane emissions in the Danish Dairy Industry: Results, Challenges and Perspectives

Raffaella Finocchiaro Animal breeding sustainability: the Italian Holstein experience

Filippo Miglior Building the capacity to reduce enteric methane emissions in Canadian dairy cattle

Marcin Pszczola After Methagene - Perspective from Poland

Elly Navajas Grass To Gas – mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and sheep breeding

Suzanne Rowe Where to from here? Global Opportunities for proxies and joined up thinking

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