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The Livestock Information Service, established in 2019, is transforming the quality of livestock movement data throughout the supply chain to improve industry sustainability.

Professor Elizabeth Magowan of the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute says farmers must focus on reducing gross farm emissions to cut their carbon footprint and support net zero.

Professor Sharon Huws of Queen's University Belfast has found ruminant methane can be cut by up to 60% through dietary intervention, according to the latest Northern Ireland trials.

Illumina's innovative sequencing and genotyping solutions are revolutionising agrigenomics and animal breeding, enabling precise genomic analysis and informed selection decisions.

ABP has built a sixty-year reputation for quality and innovation, supplying retail, foodservice and manufacturing customers while supporting over 12,000 UK farming families.

Farmers in Northern Ireland are making significant progress towards Net Zero through the pioneering ARCZero project, ahead of a legal requirement to cut emissions by 48% before 2030.

Agrecalc, developed by SAC Consulting and SRUC, has grown from a small carbon footprint calculator for imported lamb in 2007 into a fully-fledged farm carbon accounting platform.

The Co-op is funding 40 young farmer and agricultural student places at this year's BCBC conference in Telford, themed 'Green Genes: revolutionising cattle breeding for the future'.

Third-generation farmer Rory Christie helped create the world's first crossbreeding index using genomic data, milk production and herd health records on his 1,100-cow spring-calving herd.

Aberdeenshire suckler farmer Duncan Morrison is bucking the trend, taking on a 226-acre tenancy and more than quadrupling his herd over eight years while others were dispersing.

The BCBC conference returns to Telford on 22-24 January 2024, themed 'Green Genes: revolutionising cattle breeding for a sustainable future', with the full programme now available.

The BCBC conference returns to Telford in January to explore why the UK's cattle industry is part of the climate solution, and how breeding can help meet greening targets.