The Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI) has announced that over 500,000 genotypes are now passing through the BreedPlan evaluations each month.
BreedPlan uses an advanced genetic evaluation system to produce Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) of recorded cattle for a range of important production traits (e.g. weight, carcase, fertility).
Included in the calculation of EBVs are the animal’s own performance, the performance of known relatives, the heritability of each trait and the relationship between the different traits i.e. a world class genetic evaluation model, combining…
