Understanding breeding and genetics

Genomic information is playing an increasingly important role in genetic evaluation for beef cattle breeders. As genotyping becomes more common, it is the quality and quantity of phenotypes…
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‘Female selection in beef cattle’ provides a practical overview to help you to understand the basics of female selection and management, better understand the relative contribution of female selection to the overall herd, and improve your skills in female selection and management.

This booklet will assist you to: define markets, determine breeding goals and plan breeding programs. This publication covers topics such as achievable gains from a planned breeding program;…
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Beef cattle recording and selection provides an overview of basic beef cattle genetics and the basic principles of planned breeding and selection in practice. It includes producers’ experiences…
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Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) are estimates of an animals’ genetic merit for a particular trait and an indication of how an animal’s progeny will perform. EBVs are expressed…
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BREEDPLAN is a system of genetic evaluation of beef cattle developed by the Animal Genetics & Breeding Unit (AGBU) with the BREEDPLAN technology licenced to the Agricultural Business…
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Find out about cross breeding cattle, combining the attributes of two or more breeds, rotational crossbreeding, composite breeds and other information.

In beef production, the principle objectives are: weight of beef sold per cow mated or per unit area of grazing land quality of beef sold per cow mated…
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Find out about beef cattle breeding and genetics: how to improve the genetics of your herd, selecting and managing bulls, breeders and heifers, useful tools, etc.

Identifying breeding objectives is fundamental to planned cattle breeding. So who sets breeding objectives? If we are honest with ourselves we will answer ‘I do’. Breeding objectives are…
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