August 12, 2022
The official August genetic proofs are officially available.
October 25, 2021
No dairy farmer wants lame cows in their barn. No consumer wants to see cows struggling with lameness, either.
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 cows.
January 21, 2021
The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding – home to the largest dairy database (both phenotypes and genotypes) in the world – recently announced the addition of feed efficiency traits to its genetic evaluation.
December 7, 2020
Feed represents the single largest expense on most dairy farms, and even small improvements can have important financial, environmental, and land use implications.
October 8, 2020
The Council on Dairy Cattle Breeding has announced that a heifer livability (HL) genetic evaluation will be released for Holstein and Jersey sires with the December sire evaluations. The trait will be included in the Net Merit index when it is updated next year. Heifer livability will get 1% emphasis in the new Net Merit index.
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