SELECTION for improvement within a beef herd or a breed is dependent on several factors.
The first is to have access to information which allows an individual producer to assess where the upper and lower levels of performance are within a chosen group of animals. In its simplest form, the information may be as basic as a visual observation of a group of animals. At the other end of the scale, the information may include visual observations, performance, and genotypic data.
The intent in this process is to identify the animals which have displayed the highest level of genetic and…
