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Weekly genetics review: Which way to swipe? The challenges of using photos in bull selection

At a recent bull selection workshop I attended, a participant told me that looking at photos of sale bulls was often like “looking at pictures on Tinder”. His point was that the photos provided didn’t always match reality.

Providing images of sale bulls is now a common practice for almost all bull breeders. However there is a huge variation in the quality of images captured and presented for potential purchasers at sale time on websites, in ads, or in catalogues.

The ready availability of cameras, in the form of mobile phones, has seen an almost exponential increase in images…

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