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"Slick” Gene Improves Cattle Heat Tolerance
With the summer heat blazing down on cattle ranchers across the country, the discovery of a new way to improve heat tolerance in cattle is certainly good news....
Angus Fall Cattle Evaluation Includes New Carcass EPDs
The American Angus Association’s (AAA) fall 2008 national cattle evaluation results are now available at www.angus.org. The semiannual analysis contains information submitted by nearly 9,800 Angus breeders ...
Across-breed EPDs
The table of adjustment factors to be used to estimate across-breed expected progeny differences (AB-EPDs) for 16 breeds was presented at the Beef Improvement...
Add Your Input On DNA Technology
The Beef Improvement Federation’s (BIF) Commission on DNA Markers has established a blog to gather input on DNA technology and beef cattle improvement...
Multi-Breed Genetic Evaluation
Imagine being able to directly compare the genetic merit of seedstock, no matter what breed or breed combination. It would be the pinnacle of genetic-evaluation...
DNA testing in range settings
DNA paternity identification (ID) and progeny testing may be profitable for open-range beef cattle operations with bull-culling rates of 20% or greater,...
EPDs provide genetic insight
The beef cattle industry has been using Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) as a selection tool in improving calf productivity for nearly two decades....
Fast-Forward Genetics
When it comes to genomics and genetic evaluation, the sum is more powerful than the parts, at least for now, apparently. It's called whole-gnome selection...
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
