Practical Guidance for Using CDCB’s New Milking Speed PTA
Written by Chad Dechow for Select Sires
March 16, 2026
“This new evaluation is different because it is based on records of milk yield and milking time from parlor milk meters. Because the data is objective and quantifiable, the heritability is fairly high (42%) which means the genomic PTA for milking speed will have a high reliability as the amount of data contributing to the evaluation system grows.”
For full article, https://www.selectsires.com/article/ss-blog/2026/03/05/practical-guidance-for-using-cdcb-new-milking-speed-pta
By Chad Dechow, Ph.D., (Penn State University) for Select Sires