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Weekly genetics review: Don’t just rely on correlations for your EBVs

THE process of developing Estimated Breeding Values for a breed or even for a new operation within a breed requires a degree of commitment, if it is to generate the information that can aid prospective bull breeders and future clients.

There is a lot of data that needs to be collected if the EBVs that are generated are to reach a level of accuracy that is acceptable to most breeders.

It’s possible that many breeders choose to submit data to Breedplan without really understanding the data that they should be recording and submitting. Equally there can be some casualness about the…

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