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Economically Relevent Traits and Selection Indcies

Matt Spangler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Document Type Article

Copyright 2015 Matt Spangler.

Abstract

Summary

  • Establish production goals
  • Use economic indices that fit your desired breeding objectives
  • Do not make sire selection more cumbersome than it needs to be
  • Know your costs
  • Select on PROFIT not just revenue
  • Multiple trait selection is critical and could become more cumbersome
  • Economic indexes help alleviate this
  • Use index values that meet your breeding objective

This paper has been withdrawn.