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Formulation of a decision support tool incorporating both genetic and non-genetic effects to rank young growing cattle on expected market value.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Feb 2021
Dunne F L, Evans R D, Kelleher M M, Walsh S W, Berry D P
Abstract excerpt
While breeding indexes exist globally to identify candidate parents of the next generation, fewer tools exist that provide guidance on the expected monetary value of young animals. The objective of the present study was therefore to develop the framework for a cattle decision-support tool which incorporates both the genetic and non-genetic information of an animal and, in doing so, better predict the potential...
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