More fertile, productive, and healthy herds through unlocking genetic gains
DairyBio21-26 will continue the research and innovation from the first phase of DairyBio (2016-21) to drive productivity and profitability improvement on-farm.
The DairyBio Future Cow program is focused on delivering the tools for farmer selected trait and breeding priorities, and will use the advances in animal monitoring to provide new tools for profitable adaptation to future farms.
The core outcomes of Future Cow are long lasting cows for a lifetime profit that are adapted to a changing natural, regulatory, and social environment and maintain cumulative and permanent genetic gains.
The six DairyBio Future Cow projects are:
DairyBio21-26
DairyBio: Green Cow Index – enabling selection for methane emissions
Future forages and cows for future farms
DairyBio: Feed Saved ABV and importance of resource efficiency
DairyBio: Turning around daughter fertility
Transition cow health and fertility – a focus on metabolic health
DairyBio: Developing Cross bred and Aussie Reds genomic prediction
DairyBio: Increasing reliability of genomic prediction through custom XT SNP Chips'
Watch WestVic Dairy's Debbie Twiss and Professor Jennie Pryce talk about dairy cattle genetic improvement