THE northern beef industry has benefited significantly in recent years through major research initiatives, starting with the Beef CRCs I, II and III, the QDPI Cash Cow project and the ongoing Northern Repronomics project, as key examples.
The challenge of these and any research project is to have the outcomes, observed and adopted by the industry in order to see the full benefit impacting and improving the industry.
At a seedstock level, one of the major challenges is to see a greater adoption of performance recording and publication of EBVs to allow producers selection decisions to…
