ORGANIZATION

oBJECTIVES

The European Brown Swiss Federation has in view the cooperation between the various Brown Swiss cattle breeding organizations in order to promote the breed. Means of obtain this objective are:

• Organization of international contests (European Championships of Brown Cattle for cows and heifers)
• Harmonize of Linear Description and Classification (LDC)
• Common education of judges
• Common methods of Genetic Evaluation including Total Merit Index
• Common pormotion of Brown Cattle
• Common research work (for example milk from Brown Swiss cows)
• Guidance of a common data bank of hereditary defects
• Co-ordination in the domain of herdbook

Organization of international congresses for technical specialists (European Conference of Brown Cattle Breeders)