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Genetic improvements of beef cattle – the farmer/practioner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2017

R Fuller
R Fuller*
Affiliation:
J S R Farms, York, UK
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JSR Farms at Givendale runs a commercial cross-bred suckler herd of 100 cows alongside a pedigree Charolais herd of 110 cows. The Charolais breeding programme is focused on improving the output from the cross-bred herd by using BLUP to select sires with superior genetic merit for production traits. Breeding stock with high EBV’s for growth and carcase traits are selected for re-breeding and attention is also paid to 200 day milk EBV’s and to controlling the level of calving difficulty. Home-bred replacement heifers are selected with Beef Values ranked in the top 10% of the National breed and the stud of reference sires used in the programme have Beef Values in the top 1% of the breed.

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Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science , Volume 2001 , 2001 , pp. 270 - 271
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Copyright © The British Society of Animal Science 2001

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