Source: BMC Veterinary Research
Jean-Francois Hocquette,
Carine Bernard-Capel,
Veronique Vidal,
Beline Jesson,
Hubert Levéziel,
Gilles Renand &
Isabelle Cassar-Malek
Abstract
Background
Previous research programmes have described muscle biochemical traits and gene expression levels associated with beef tenderness. One of our results concerning...
Source: Canadian Angus Association
Accuracy (ACC) — the reliability that can be placed on the EPD. An accuracy of close to 1.0 indicates higher reliability. Accuracy is impacted by the number of progeny and ancestral records included in the analysis.
Active...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council
Project Title: Genetics of eating quality of high connective tissue beef
Researchers: Heather Bruce, Ph.D. hbruce@ualberta.ca Heather Bruce, Ph.D., Graham Plastow, Leluo Guan, Paul Stothard and Zhiquan Wang (University of Alberta), Manuel Juarez and Changxi Li...
Source: Beef Cattle Research Council, www.BeefResearch.ca
Do you raise your own heifers? Or do you prefer to purchase your replacements? Regardless of your choice, developing heifers costs money and requires careful management.
Ideally, replacement heifers will go on to become long-term producers...
Source: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry
The third article in this six part series looks at benchmarks and ways to track the genetic performance of the herd.
A pilot project aimed to help Alberta producers adopt new technology and innovation recently brought...
Source: Canadian Angus Association
The Canadian Angus Association (CAA) is very grateful for the investment of $238,920 from the Canadian Agriculture Partnership (the Partnership) AgriAssurance program to help us use genomic tools to select for foot and leg health and...
Source: Alberta Beef Producers
Major step to boost productivity of the Canadian herd.
Cattle genomics research holds tremendous promise to unlock the blueprints for animals that use less food, finish better and produce less waste. In this study, researchers identified several...
Source: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Selecting which breed of bull to buy when there are over 70 different beef breeds to choose from has always been a difficult decision. However the last few years has seen...
Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Chen, L., Vinsky, M.D., and Li, C. (2015). "Accuracy of predicting genomic breeding values for carcass merit traits in Angus and Charolais beef cattle.", Animal Genetics, 46(1), pp. 55-59. doi : 10.1111/age.12238 Access to full text
Abstract
Accuracy...
Source: Canadian Angus Association
It would be easier if we could assume that the highest EPDs (Expected Progeny Differences) are the best. Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple. Like most decisions, using EPDs for sire selection involves tradeoffs. For example, bulls...
