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April 2024 Evaluation Changes: What’s New?

CDCB USDA Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory

March 7, 2024

The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding (CDCB) and USDA Animal Genomics Improvement Laboratory (AGIL) announce enhancements in the U.S. dairy genetic evaluations on April 2,…

December 2023 Evaluation Changes: What’s New?

CDCB USDA Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory

November 16, 2023

Changes for the December 5, 2023, CDCB evaluations include updated imputation results for all breeds, new haplotype calls for early onset muscle weakness syndrome in…

Brown Swiss Fertility Haplotype BH14

USDA Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory

March 7, 2023

By Paul VanRaden, Dan Null and Norm Magnussen Switzerland in 2022 began reporting a new lethal haplotype in Brown Swiss (BH14) that causes early pregnancy…

Getting Milk Yield Right

Asha Miles

June 14, 2022

December 2021: Changes to Evaluation System

Kristen Parker Gaddis Paul VanRaden

December 1, 2021

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August 2021: Changes to Evaluation System

Kristen Parker Gaddis Paul VanRaden Rob Tempelman Mahesh Neupane

August 1, 2021

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Lifetime Net Merit revised in August for balanced selection, profitable dairy cows

João Dürr, Ph.D. Kristen Parker Gaddis Paul VanRaden Tom Lawlor Rob Tempelman

July 2, 2021

Lifetime Net Merit (NM$) has driven genetic progress since 1994 by promoting a balanced selection of all available, economically-important traits to maximize profitability of dairy…