About this ebook
Optimising breeding of dairy cows: Leveraging genetics for more sustainable production provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in dairy cow breeding, focussing on recent advances in the use of genomics, phenomics and other ‘omics’ technologies. The book also considers how particular technologies can be applied to achieve desired breeding goals, such as improvements in feed efficiency, thermotolerance, reproductive efficiency and longevity.
This book builds on a successful earlier volume published by Burleigh Dodds Science: Advances in breeding of dairy cattle (2019).
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About the author
Professor Donagh Berry is a Senior Principal Research Officer in quantitative genetics at Teagasc, Ireland as well as holding several (inter)national professorship appointments. He is strongly engaged in third-level education and extension to a wide range of different stakeholders. He was awarded a higher Doctorate in Science based on published works which included >400 peer reviewed scientific journal articles mostly relating to dairy cow breeding. Working across species, his research interests are in phenotyping strategies, breeding goal development and deployment, genetic evaluations and genomic predictions.
