News

April 2024 Evaluation Changes: What’s New?

March 7, 2024

CDCB and USDA AGIL announce enhancements in the U.S. dairy genetic evaluations on April 2, 2024.

December 2023 Evaluation Changes: What’s New?

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 Holsteins, and update to the haplotype calls for cholesterol deficiency in Holsteins.

Brown Swiss Fertility Haplotype BH14

March 7, 2023

BH14 has been added to the list of genomic haplotypes reported in the U.S., following USDA AGIL analysis of records in the CDCB database. Routine publication of BH14 status will support breed fertility improvement by allowing appropriate selection and mating of males and females.

Announcing QDisc

February 10, 2023

CDCB announces a new service, QDisc, or quick discovery of close relatives. This quick-turnaround service uses the ICAR-defined parentage SNP to discover close relatives.

Constructed ID’s: Eliminating Pedigree Dead Ends

February 1, 2023

Knowing an animal’s ancestry several generations back is certainly the goal for breeders; however, there are instances where animals have a gap in their pedigree. To fill in more pedigree gaps, CDCB is implementing a new solution starting in February 2023.

Connecting With João Dürr

November 3, 2022

João Dürr reviewed the past year and described the CDCB vision in the CEO Column from the 2022 Activity Report.

Invited review: The future of selection decisions and breeding programs: What are we breeding for, and who decides?

April 12, 2022

April 2022: Changes to Evaluation System

April 4, 2022

Three times a year, genetic evaluations are calculated for all the dairy animals in the U.S. database.