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The Centre for Dairy Information (CDI), a single national database, was launched this week to provide the UK dairy farming industry with more comprehensive and reliable animal performance and welfare improvement information. It is the culmination of more than five years hard work by leading UK dairy information providers to reduce duplication and cost while improving the accuracy and value of dairy animal performance, type and ancestry record-keeping. As such, it fulfils a long-held vision.

CDI involves pooling information by the major UK dairy breed societies and two of the country’s three official milk recording organisations in a fully-unified database run independently for the benefit of farmers and the industry. The database includes the breeding and performance records of more than 75% of all the UK’s milk-recorded cows, making it an extremely valuable and influential resource.

“For the first time ever, farmers have fast, convenient and confidential 24-hour access to all the data held on every one of their animals in the same format from a single reliable source,” explained the driving force behind the project, Holstein UK chief executive, David Hewitt at CDI’s national industry launch. “Bringing it to fruition certainly hasn’t been easy. After all, everyone involved has had to give-up a substantial measure of long-cherished independence in information processing and storage.

“I would like to pay tribute to the way the founder organisations – Holstein UK*, British Friesian Breeders*, the Jersey Cattle Society of the UK, the English Guernsey Cattle Society*, Cattle Information Service and United Dairy Farmers – have been able to overcome these hurdles in the broader industry interest. ( * BLG members, you can access their websites from www.britishlivestockgenetics.com )

As a completely open database, CDI allows inputs from all data providers meeting its standards; provides farmers with password-protected access to their herd data; and makes aggregate information available to the industry under strict data protection rules. With its integral passport and movement services, the organisation becomes the single largest provider of cattle information to the British Cattle Movement Service.

Says David Hewitt. “We plan to increase this value progressively in the future through a host of new initiatives and industry links. “Since we brought about the unification of the two black and white dairy breed societies in 1999 we have been relentless in our drive to eliminate duplication, improve efficiency and cut costs in pedigree herd record-keeping,” he concluded. “In this time we have been able to reduce registration costs by as much as 35%. We look forward to CDI acting as an important catalyst to even greater integration of dairy information provision in the future”

A special CDI website ( www.thecdi.co.uk ) is to be introduced in the next few months as the main access point for farmer and industry users. Meanwhile, contact via www.holstein-uk.org

[21 Apr 05]