The 3 day workshop workshop funded by MAF and PGgRc was held in Wellington, New Zealand on March 3-5 2009 under the auspices of LEARN. There was Twenty-nine participants from 7 countries in attendance.
The workshop was the first opportunity to bring together animal genetics and animal methane researchers to discuss aspects of genetic improvement for enteric emissions. Many Opportunities and constraints to reducing emissions by genetic improvement of animals were identified.
Workshop introduction and background - Roger Hegarty
An overview from global to animal level and what we might breed for Hegarty
Greenhouse accounting for ruminant emissions and including animal genetic improvement Clark
Enteric methane mitigation research underway in Australia Henry
Impact of genetic selection for performance on greenhouse gas emissions from Merinos Cottle
Spin-off benefits from current genetic improvement in the NZ sheep industry and potential for enhancement. Amer
GHG changes associated with genotype changes in the NZ dairy herd Montgomerie
New Zealand studies of low methane yield sheep’. Pinares
Australian studies on “Low Methane Cattle Hegarty
Results of PGgRc, Vialactia, LIC dairy genomics methane study Berry
Between- and within-animal variation in methane production Robinson
Current methane measurement techniques and their errors Vlaming
High throughput measures and proxies for methane production from ruminants Goopy
Development and possible applications of long term slow intake breath subsamplers in identifying methane phenotype of ruminants Gere
Methods and possibilities for determining feed intake of grazing ruminants Dove
An assessment of net energy expenditure measurement in ruminants Brosh
A tracer approach to measuring energy expenditure Hegarty
Intended Australian research for breeding low methane cattle Donoghue
Intended Australian research for breeding low methane sheep Vercoe
New Zealand plans for sheep genetics research for GHG mitigation McEwan/Pinares
Feed Intake, residual fee intake and its implementation in Australia Donoghue
Association between RFI and GHG emissions, and implementation of RFI in Canada Basarab
Net feed intake research initiatives for cattle in Brazil Lana
Studies on breed differences in feed-use efficiency Lewis
Introducing genetics & Nitrogen efficiency Waghorn
DAY 3
Irish research on Net Feed Intake for beef (and effects on GHG emissions) Kenny
Selection for Net Feed Intake in NZ dairy heifers Waghorn
Recommendations on trait, measurement procedures and research needed in breeding for low GHG livestock