NEOWAS Operational Group: Measuring individual farm methane emissions toward decarbonization of Spanish dairy cattle by 2050
- Type Operational group
- 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
The measurement of GHG emissions in individual cows on dairy farms and its relationship with production, functionality and genetics of the animals will allow the selection of animals that are more efficient in the use of feed and with lower GHG emissions. The GO_NEOWAS project will have a measuring device on farms with a milking robot, will collect all possible additional information from the animals with emissions data, will obtain a biological sample 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 centers and dairy cattle farmers to select the most desirable animals in the following generations.
- 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.
- Identification and selection of farms with the best track record in collecting phenotypic data and the greatest interest in using the information generated on the farm.
- Analysis of phenotypic information on farm methane emissions, report design and development of a web platform for information retrieval, environmental impact indicators for dairy cattle farms, genotyping of animals with collected phenotypes, and design of strategies for disseminating favorable genes throughout the population.
- Set of Tier 3 type equations for each of the productive systems evaluated.
- Coordinator/entity name: CONAFE
- Coordinator/entity email: sofia.alday@conafe.com
- Aberekin SA
- Organización interprofesional láctea (INLACINLAC)
- Confederación de Asociaciónes de frisona española (CONAFE)
- Asturiana de control lechero sociedad cooperativa (ASCOL)
- Federación frisona de Castilla y León (FEFRICALE)
- 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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