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Derivation of economic values for German dairy breeds by means of a bio-economic model-with special emphasis on functional traits.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Mar 2021
Schmidtmann C, Thaller G, Kargo M, Hinrichs D, Ettema J
Abstract excerpt
To assess the economic importance of breeding traits, economic values (EV) were derived for 3 German dairy cattle breeds: German Holstein (HOL), Angler (ANG), and Red and White Dual-Purpose (RDN). For that purpose, the stochastic bio-economic model SimHerd (SimHerd A/S, Viborg, Denmark) was used, which simulates the expected monetary gain in dairy herds. The EV was calculated as the alteration in average net...
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