Measuring individual methane emissions on farms towards decarbonisation of Spanish dairy cattle in 2050
- Type Grupo operativo
- Status In progress
- Execution 2022 -2025
- Assigned Budget 249.910,69 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Aragón; Asturias, Principado de; Balears, Illes; Cantabria; Castilla y León; Castilla - La Mancha; Cataluña; Comunitat Valenciana; Extremadura; Galicia; Madrid, Comunidad de; Navarra, Comunidad Foral de; País Vasco
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://www.revistafrisona.com/GO_NEOWAS
Description
Measuring GHG emissions from individual cows on dairy farms and their relationship to animal production, functionality and genetics will allow for the selection of animals that are more efficient in their use of feed and with lower GHG emissions.
The GO_NEOWAS project will have a measuring device on farms with milking robots, will collect all possible additional information from animals with emission data, will obtain biological samples and will determine their genotype, in order to establish the prediction equations of genetic value for the traits related to GHG emissions.
These results will allow Spanish artificial insemination centres and dairy cattle farmers to select the most desirable animals in the following generations.
Objectives
- Collection, analysis and presentation to farmers once the information related to methane emissions on farms has been processed.
- Feasibility study of the incorporation of methane emission traits in the dairy cattle improvement programme in Spain.
- Establish Tier 3 equations for methane emissions in the different regions and production systems in Spain.
Results
- Identification and selection of farms with a better track record in collecting phenotypic data and a greater interest in using the information generated on the farm.
- Analysis of phenotypic information on methane emissions on farms, design of reports and development of the web platform for consulting information.
- Environmental impact indicators in dairy cattle farms, genotyping of animals with collected phenotypes and design of strategies for disseminating favourable genes in the population.
- Set of Tier 3 type equations for each of the production systems evaluated.
Contact information
sofia.alday@conafe.com
Coordinators
- Confederación de Asociaciónes de frisona española (CONAFE)
- Asturiana de control lechero sociedad cooperativa (ASCOL)
- Federación frisona de Castilla y León (FEFRICALE)
Collaborators
- Aberekin SA
- Organización interprofesional láctea (INLACINLAC)
Beneficiaries
- Confederación de Asociaciónes de frisona española (CONAFE)
- Asturiana de control lechero sociedad cooperativa (ASCOL)
- Federación frisona de Castilla y León (FEFRICALE)
Outsourced
- Xenetica Fontao SA
- Instituto nacional de investigación y tecnología agraria y alimentaria (INIA)
- Agencia estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- Instituto vasco de investigación y desarrollo agrario (NEIKER)
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