News

CDCB delivers the latest news on genetic improvement, research and U.S. evaluations through its monthly newsletter, dairy media, and events.

December 2022 Evaluations: What Is New?

CDCB

December 6, 2022

Nearly 79 million dairy animals received updated U.S. genetic evaluations on Tuesday, December 6. With the December 2022 triannual evaluations, two updates were implemented by the team at CDCB and USDA AGIL.


Nominations Open for ADSA, Lush Awards

CDCB

November 3, 2022

Nominations are due January 6 for the 2023 ADSA awards, including the J. L. Lush Award in Animal Breeding sponsored by CDCB.


Connecting With João Dürr

João Dürr, Ph.D.

November 3, 2022

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


Intern Report: Investigation into Johne’s Disease

November 3, 2022

During the summer of 2022 at CDCB, I conducted a project to investigate the incidence of Johne’s disease in U.S. dairy cattle.


New Research Published on Residual Feed Intake

CDCB

November 1, 2022

Research by collaborators from five universities, CDCB and USDA AGIL was published in the November 1, 2022, Frontiers in Genetics: Impact of epistasis effects on the accuracy of predicting phenotypic values of residual feed intake in U.S. Holstein cows.


Introducing the new uscdcb.com!

CDCB

October 27, 2022

A brand new CDCB website was unveiled October 27, delivering more, easy-to-access info about U.S. dairy genetics.


WebConnect Replaces Legacy System

CDCB

October 27, 2022

CDCB’s new WebConnect platform has now completely replaced the legacy system for evaluation queries, results and listings.


Internship Applications Due March 31, 2023

CDCB

October 24, 2022

Since 2016, CDCB has offered summer internships to junior, senior, or graduate students with a major in animal or dairy science, supporting the development of future genetic leaders.


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