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- Summary: GENERAL: LIC: LIC and DairyNZ reach agreement on Core Database
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LIC
05/06/2012 14:33
GENERAL
REL: 1433 HRS Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited (NS)
GENERAL: LIC: LIC and DairyNZ reach agreement on Core Database
DairyNZ and LIC have reached agreement for the transfer of the Core Database
to the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database.
Following LIC shareholder agreement and legislative change, the Dairy
Industry Good Animal Database will be run by DairyNZ.
The change has been brought about following an independent review, known as
the Anderson Review, on the future of the Core Database. Following
consultation with the dairy industry, the Anderson Committee recommended that
the Core Database should be run by an independent dairy industry good
organisation.
The agreement between LIC and DairyNZ means that DairyNZ will also in future
run the Animal Evaluation and provide Breeding Worth for sires in New Zealand
on behalf and for the benefit of all dairy farmers. This change will not
impact on LIC's commercial operations and LIC will supply cow Breeding Worth
figures directly to farmers and to other herd record providers under
commercial arrangements.
LIC CEO Mark Dewdney and DairyNZ CEO Tim Mackle announced the agreement
today.
Mark Dewdney says LIC fully supports the transfer of the Core Database and
the organisation had been in dialogue with DairyNZ to ensure the handover
happens as smoothly and as effectively as possible.
"LIC has operated one database with two components - the Core Database on
behalf of the dairy industry guided by an Access Panel which is a subset of
the LIC Database which comprises 18,500 fields of IP developed and paid for
by LIC shareholders.
"This agreement with DairyNZ will see the Core Database pass to an industry
good body which is the right thing to do for the industry. The LIC Database
remains with LIC," says Mark Dewdney.
DairyNZ CEO Tim Mackle says the agreement is another milestone for the dairy
industry ensuring value creation for dairy farmers' in the future through
continued improvement in the performance of the national herd.
"LIC has done a fantastic job for the industry over many years by making New
Zealand dairy cows more productive through genetic improvement. The time is
now right for DairyNZ to pick up the baton and safeguard national breeding
objectives by looking after the core industry information on animal
evaluation," says Tim Mackle.
LIC shareholders will vote on the transfer later in the year, and following
legislative change the running of the database will move to DairyNZ around
the middle of next year.
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For more information contact:
Clare Bayly, LIC Communications Manager, 027 4998862
Or
Philip Burton, DairyNZ Communications Manager, 021 428748
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