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Benchmarking in a beef cattle breeding program: Lessons from the best breeders.
Journal of animal breeding and genetics = Zeitschrift fur Tierzuchtung und Zuchtungsbiologie - 1 May 2023
Toral Fabio Luiz Buranelo, Menezes Gilberto Romeiro de Oliveira, da Silva Luiz Otavio Campos, Martin Nieto Leonardo, de Souza Maury Dorta, Torres Roberto Augusto de Almeida
Abstract excerpt
Beef cattle breeding programs offer genetic evaluations and consulting services on animal breeding practices to help breeders improve the genetic merit of their herds. Some breeders are more willing to apply best practices and technologies than others. Consequently, the average genetic merit and genetic trends differ across herds. We benchmarked some parameters of an average herd (AVE) and the corresponding...
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