Elevéo
Elevéo asbl is in charge of official animal performance recordings for the Walloon farming community, including milk recording. It also maintains phenotypic, genomic and pedigree database for Walloon cattle, and organizes genetic evaluation services for the Walloon breeders and AI companies. Elevéo asbl implements and maintains management and breeding tools for Walloon farmers, vets and extension workers. Elevéo asbl ensures the management of EMR EEIG (70,000 farms in BE, FR, DE, LU, IE, UK, AT).
Elevéo asbl is part of the Walloon association of breeders awé group.
Website: http://www.awenet.be/awe/commun/asbl/asbl.php
France Conseil Elevage
FCEL is a national federation of companies serving cattle and goat breeders. It gathers French organizations that realize official performance recordings of animals. FCEL network is comprised with a large number of farm consultants providing advice services to farmers in the whole France (more than 1,500 technicians and 260 engineers). FCEL delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://www.france-conseil-elevage.fr/
Landesverband Baden-Württemberg für Leistungsprüfungen in der Tierzucht e. V.
LKV-BW is a self-help farmers’ organization. The most important task of the association is to carry out performance and quality tests in the field of animal production on behalf of the state of Baden-Württemberg and to offer accompanying advice to farmers. It includes milk recording for more than 300,000 cows in 7,000 farms. Furthermore, it is the official association for animal identification. LKV-BW delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://lkvbw.de/
Qualitas AG
Qualitas is the competence center for computer science and quantitative genetics for Swiss breeding organisations. Qualitas has proven specialists in the fields of database applications, herd bookkeeping, performance testing and breeding evaluation. Qualitas has powerful hardware, zootechnical database and software applications and a modern printing and shipping line. It delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://qualitasag.ch/
Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques
Walloon Agricultural Research Centre of Gembloux (CRA-W) is a leading scientific institution, depending on the Walloon Ministry of Agricultures. For 30 years, the Department named “Valorisation des productions” manages an analytical laboratory and has been especially active in the field of the infrared spectrometry and Chemometrics which is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. CRA-W delivers standardization materials to EU labs for the service of EMR
Website: https://www.cra.wallonie.be/fr
Université de Liège-Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
ULiège- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech is a major player in agricultural and biology science in Belgium. In particular, Numerical Genetics, Genomics and Modelling group (NGGM) has extensive experience providing scientific services in animal breeding, genetics and genomics, management and environmental challenges in dairy farms. Among other, the NGGM group has strong skills on milk composition for quality and biomarkers of interest.
Website: https://www.gembloux.uliege.be/cms/c_4039827/fr/gembloux-agro-bio-tech
ESTEL Numérique
ESTEL is a company which develops innovative digital solutions for the agricultural world and SMEs. This is the historical partner of both FCEL and EMR EEIG with regard to IT development and farm level data driven applications. ESTEL has specific skills in API (Application Programming Interface) for web-based systems, to optimize communication between various software components.
Website: https://www.estel-numerique.com/
Landeskontrollverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V.
LKV-NRW is a State Control Association and a service provider in agriculture with the following areas of responsibility: milk performance recording, milk quality check, animal identification, QM-Milk and QS system consultant. For the testing of raw milk samples, the LKV NRW uses the accredited test laboratory of IfM GmbH & Co. LKV-NRW delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: http://www.lkv-nrw.de/
CONVIS s.c.
CONVIS is an agricultural cooperative. Its main activities are animal production and agricultural extension. CONVIS has a direct relationship with farmers and provides milk recording for 80% of dairy farms in Luxembourg. It organizes other performance tests, and advices on all aspects of livestock breeding, feeding, husbandry and care. It’s in charge of safeguarding the interests of livestock breeding. It delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://www.convis.lu/home.html
Institut de l’Elevage
IDELE is the reference technical institute for ruminant farming and breeding in France. It brings technical solutions for farmers and economic actors in the sectors, to value chains economic actors, complying with social issues such as animal welfare, traceability and environment. Its activities are from applied research to technology transfer, in animal health and welfare, genetics, animal husbandry, products quality, farm human resources, information systems, etc.
Website: http://idele.fr/
Irish Cattle Breeding Federation Society Limited
Irish Cattle Breeding Federation provides cattle breeding information services to the Irish farmers and industry to make the most profitable and sustainable decisions, through the use of the services provided from its database. ICBF’s activities revolve around the maintenance and growth of the national cattle breeding database, which holds information on all registered animals including performance data. It delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://www.icbf.com/wp/
NATIONAL MILK RECORDS PLC
NMR provides an integrated service working for both farmers and milk buyers as well as an independent source of data for advisors such as vets, farm consultants and breed societies. NMR is the leading supplier of milk recording services in the UK, providing management information on individual cow's performance in terms of milk quality, yield and fertility. It is acknowledged by the industry that NMR is the market leader in the provision and support of dairy software in Great Britain.
Website: https://www.nmr.co.uk/
