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5 Trending Headlines: Cattle prices to trade sideways; PLUS: Decoding EPDs
2017-07-03 20:55:00| Beef
Its been a crazy ride in the cattle markets up until nowcrazy good for the most part. Whats the outlook for the second half of the year? Trending Headlines brings you the answer.
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ADVANCEMENTS IN EPDS IMPROVE ACCURACY
2016-09-16 20:05:12| Cattle Today
It was about 40 years ago that the beef industry was introduced to the Expected Progeny Difference (EPD). In the early days, data were limited and based on comparisons with a few reference sires used in designed programs. There has been much progress in the methods used to calculate EPDs, and today most breed associations provide EPDs on all animals in the breed. After 40 years, there is still confusion over how to use these tools.
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Fall EPDs for Red Angus now available
2016-09-08 14:36:31| Beef
The Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) has released the 2016 Fall EPDs that evaluate traits from calving ease to performance to carcass merit. read more
BOLT software brings more reliability to EPDs
2016-08-01 15:47:00| Beef
Increased prediction accuracy with BOLT comes through the softwares ability to directly incorporate genomic data into the EPD calculation. read more
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New Red Angus EPDs now available
2016-02-10 02:15:48| Beef
The spring bull sale season is hitting road gear and commercial cattle producers are pouring over bull sale catalogs, mining the data for the best bulls in the offering. read more