Month: December 2025

NBDI webinar – recording and presentations

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NAV organized an NBDI webinar on 4 December. The webinar attracted over 70 participants. At the end of the event, participants from each country engaged in active discussions in country-specific groups, using their own languages.

Links to the presentations are below and the recording is here: NBDI webinar

What is NBDI – Terhi Vahlsten, NAV

Does NBDI work? Results from Finland – Terhi Vahlsten, NAV

More meat on the bone – Viktoria Ekenberg, SLU

Extra information on top of NBDI in Denmark – Jakob Lykke Voergaard, NAV

Strategy: How to use beef semen in dairy herds – Sara Petersen, Viking Danmark

NAV to withdraw from Interbeef

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NAV has decided to withdraw from the international beef breed genetic evaluation system, Interbeef. The decision will take effect on 4 December 2025.

The autumn 2025 evaluation has been updated in the Interbeef search and will remain available until the first evaluation of next year, which will be published at the end of February 2026. After that, the Interbeef search will be closed.