The relatively small population sizes of the dairy breeds Jersey and Nordic Red Cattle in the Nordic countries pose challenges in using genomic…

We must use our planet’s resources better if we are to provide food enough for everyone in the future. One of the options is to use plant breeding to…

Scientists have discovered a mutation with a built-in dilemma for dairy cattle breeders. The deleted gene sequence has a positive effect on milk yield…

For the past five years new genetic technology has created a revolution in Danish agriculture. Productivity has increased, cows have become healthier,…

PhD student Hadi Esfandyari received the award for best poster in animal genetics at 64th Annual Meeting of EAAP of the European Association of Animal…

Emissions of harmful methane from cows are to be reduced but with no concurrent loss of milk quantity or quality. Scientists from Aarhus University…

A new EU-supported network that aims, among other things, to improve measurements of methane emissions from ruminants is co-chaired by a scientist…

Genomic selection has been successfully implemented in the breeding programme for sows. Now it is turn for slaughter pigs to undergo breeding…

A new booklet published by the Danish Museum of Natural History, written by senior scientist Poul Sørensen from QGG, Aarhus University, covers the…