Factors influencing international comparisons of dairy sires.

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A method of dairy sire evaluation across multiple countries is described. Factors influencing this method are overestimation of genetic trends within countries, inclusion of evaluations of imported bulls, years of birth of the bulls included in the analysis, and estimates of genetic correlations between countries. Fall 1994 evaluations for milk, fat, and protein yields from Canada (4559 bulls), Germany (5894...

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