NEWS
13/03/08
CRV, the major supplier of Dutch genetics to British cattle breeding company
Avoncroft Genetics, will be fully using genomic selection in its bull proving
scheme.
04/01/08
Progressive dairy farmer, Michael Metcalf, of Kirkby Thore, near
Penrith, Cumbria, has turned up the ‘heat’ on farm
recently through taking a new approach to both his breeding and
nutrition management.
21/09/07
Despite the difficult situation at home, export experts will be extolling the
virtues of British livestock at shows throughout Europe this autumn.
25/07/07
Semex UK has consolidated its position as one of the UK’s
leading bovine genetics businesses by securing an exclusive distribution
contract for one of the most advanced fertility detection systems
in the world.
24/07/07
The biotechnology tool of marker-assisted selection (MAS) has raised high expectations
for increasing genetic progress through breeding.
18/06/07
The rapid spread of large-scale industrial livestock production
focussed on a narrow range of breeds is the biggest threat to
the world’s farm animal
diversity, according to a report presented this week to the Commission on Genetic
Resources for Food and Agriculture.
12/06/07
During the past few weeks an exiting development has come to
British Blonde breeders who’ve just seen some of the breeds
best bloodlines get exported into Poland.
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