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A selection index for the beef industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2017

D.E. Steane ,
G.L. Cook  and
D.M. Allen
D.E. Steane
Affiliation:
Meat and Livestock Commission, PO Box 44, Queensway House, Bletchley MK2 2EF
G.L. Cook
Affiliation:
Meat and Livestock Commission, PO Box 44, Queensway House, Bletchley MK2 2EF
D.M. Allen
Affiliation:
Meat and Livestock Commission, PO Box 44, Queensway House, Bletchley MK2 2EF
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The MLC has just completed a review of its beef breeding services,

  1. 1) To evaluate the design of a selection index in which all records of performance could be combined into a single overall estimate of breeding values,

  2. 2) To consider the organisational structure of breeding herds within which beef breeding services could be utilised most effectively.

Type
Beef Production and Growth Promoters
Information
Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972) , Volume 1984 , March 1984 , pp. 88
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1984

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