| Foreword | p. 5 |
| Opening speech by the President | p. 9 |
| Animal breeding in The Netherlands | p. 13 |
| Tendencies of development on milk breeds in Bulgaria | p. 23 |
| Dairy herd improvement services in Estonia | p. 25 |
| Milk recording and genetic evaluation of cattle and buffaloes in India | p. 33 |
| Situation and perspectives of milk production and recording in Greece | p. 43 |
| Experiences on animal recording in bilateral collaborative projects for livestock development in India | p. 49 |
| Report of the ICAR Task Force on the Development Fund | p. 63 |
| Report of the ICAR Task Force on World Breed Associations | p. 67 |
| The role of breed associations within ICAR | p. 71 |
| Report of the ICAR Sub-committee on Rules and Regulations: Strategic change in recording organisations | p. 77 |
| New developments and responsibilities in farm management systems | p. 81 |
| Experiences with the application of the AM/PM method in the Rhineland area | p. 89 |
| Report of the INTERBULL Sub-committee for 1994 and 1995 | p. 93 |
| Milk recording accuracy and its impact on genetic evaluations | p. 103 |
| Effects of the sires' country of origin on the genetic features of the Brown breed in Bulgaria | p. 109 |
| Report of the ICAR Sub-committee on Milk Meters and Jars | p. 113 |
| Yearly checking of milk meters | p. 117 |
| Milking parlours for large herds in France | p. 121 |
| Automatic cluster removal by electronic milk meters | p. 127 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on Lactation | p. 133 |
| Prediction of 305-day lactation production of Italian dairy cattle breeds | p. 137 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on computer development | p. 145 |
| Joint data base system for the Nordic countries: Challenge and perspectives | p. 149 |
| Possible consequences for French dairy farming of the ISO standards for electronic data interchange | p. 155 |
| The fax: a new mean for sending milk record results to farmers | p. 159 |
| Calculating nutrient balances in dairy farm milk recording systems | p. 163 |
| NRS-IRIS: A multi-user system to store and process cattle data on registration, milk recording and breeding | p. 169 |
| Expected benefits from the use of the information superhighway in dairy herd improvement | p. 175 |
| The Internet: A communications and management tool for dairy producers and agri-support personnel | p. 179 |
| Pilot cattle information system in Egypt | p. 183 |
| Technical change and its impact on NMR | p. 189 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on Milk Testing Laboratories | p. 193 |
| Calibration and quality control of automatic somatic cell counters using recombined milk samples | p. 197 |
| Requirements and results of the accreditation of testing laboratories for milk yield and quality control | p. 201 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on Health and Fertility Recording: Genetic improvement of functional traits in dairy cattle concerted action | p. 205 |
| Somatic cell count and its value for dairy cow management | p. 215 |
| Integrated veterinary herd supervision in Bavarian milk recording | p. 221 |
| Current status concerning the use of milk urea concentration: Analytical methods, use in different countries and how to utilise the results | p. 223 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on conformation recording | p. 229 |
| Linear description of type traits in Brown cattle breeds in Europe | p. 233 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on beef performance | p. 239 |
| New rules for beef performance recording in suckler herds in France | p. 243 |
| Economic and genetic evaluation of a non-supervised field test for beef production | p. 247 |
| Linking French and British Limousin genetic evaluation systems | p. 255 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on goat milk recording | p. 259 |
| Milk recording of goats in The Netherlands | p. 261 |
| First control and number of daily milkings influencing the goat milk recording | p. 265 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on milk recording of sheep: Survey of milk recording and genetic evaluation of dairy sheep | p. 269 |
| Milk yield adjustments for milking length and age-parity-month of lambing interaction in the Sarda dairy sheep breed | p. 283 |
| Validation of estimated genetic trend in French Lacaune dairy sheep evaluation | p. 291 |
| Survey on the recording of milk performances of dairy buffaloes in the world | p. 299 |
| Utilisation of monthly test-date method for milk recording of Egyptian buffaloes | p. 313 |
| Factors limiting regular recording of lactation performance of dairy buffaloes in Pakistan | p. 321 |
| Performance recording and future improvement of buffalo population in Bulgaria | p. 325 |
| Report of the ICAR Working Group on animal identification and registration | p. 329 |
| Approval procedure and permanent observations in France for official cattle ear tags | p. 333 |
| The system of cattle identification in Germany | p. 337 |
| Effects of injection site and of transponder size in electronic identification of cattle | p. 341 |
| Automation of weighing operations with electronic ear tags | p. 345 |
| Comparison of different devices for electronic identification of dairy sheep | p. 349 |
| Electronic identification of sheep, goats and cattle using ruminal bolus | p. 355 |
| Tracing single animals for quality control purposes | p. 359 |
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