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Relationship between dairy cow genetic merit and profit on commercial spring calving dairy farms.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jul 2012
Ramsbottom G, Cromie A R, Horan B, Berry D P
Abstract excerpt
Because not all animal factors influencing profitability can be included in total merit breeding indices for profitability, the association between animal total merit index and true profitability, taking cognisance of all factors associated with costs and revenues, is generally not known. One method to estimate such associations is at the herd level, associating herd average genetic merit with herd profitability....
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