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Genetics: Southern Multi Breed Project data to be accessible in a matter of months

COMMERCIAL beef and seedstock producers could benefit from the data generated by the Southern Multi Breed (SMB) Project as early as 2024.

Brad Walmsley

Having reached almost 5000 progeny across three cohorts in as many years, SMB principal investigator Dr Brad Walmsley said the research team had made significant strides in improving beef cattle genetics with efforts currently underway to make data available as soon as is practical to within breed BreedPlan evaluations.

“We have new traits that we’re recording with the goal of getting them into BreedPlan. Cow condition score, for…

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