Articles Tagged with ''EPD''
EPDs provide a lot of value when selecting bulls for your herd, but understanding across-breed EPD relationships can help producers more precisely apply heterosis and breed complementarity with their specific environment.
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Sustainability, beef-on-dairy big topics at BIF Symposium
Researchers, marketers, and commercial and seedstock producers from around the world gathered at the 2023 BIF Symposium to discuss how improving beef genetics are helping the industry face the modern world.
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Selecting for reproductive efficiency in beef herds
Keeping your cows on a 12-month calving interval is not an easy task, but understanding what their bodies are going through will help achieve that goal.
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Genetics can improve livestock grazing in South Texas
Improving beef cattle systems – particularly pertaining to sustainability-related traits such as heat tolerance, fertility and ability to travel – is a priority at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at Beeville.
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Genomic testing: The past, present and future
The history of genetic evaluation in the beef cattle industry is relatively brief, but the discoveries made in that time provide invaluable information that should enable advances in the industry far into the future.
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Precision animal management: What is it and how can it help you?
Thanks to new technologies, producers can manage cattle more precisely and efficiently. Learn how to apply precision animal management practices on your operation.
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Picking a winning bull by the numbers
Understanding what goes into determining expected progeny differences (EPD) numbers can go a long way toward helping producers better know which bulls will work best in their herds.
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An evening at the Confused Chromosome Club: Exponential genes
At first blush, PCR technology may seem like a redundancy on the ranch, providing little beyond a talking point at the local watering hole. But when utilized correctly, it can supply producers with a slew of valuable genetic information.
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