Research need from Focus Group: Robustness and animal efficiency

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Geographical scope	European Union
Keywords	animal husbandry animal breeding feed business model environmental impact focus group

This is the problem:

This need for research has been identified in FG 42 on “Sustainable beef production systems”. If you want to know more about it, check the final report of the Focus Group.

Variation between animals in feed conversion efficiency has a genetic component, allowing the selection of animals with greater efficiency. On the other hand, cattle have to be more robust to be able to adapt to environmental and pasture-based feed challenges across seasons and over different years. There is a knowledge gap on robustness and efficiency in different production systems, breeds and environments.

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Fri, 23/04/2021