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Title: Can I compare EPD's across breeds?

Author
item SPANGLER, MATT - University Of Nebraska
item Kuehn, Larry

Submitted to: World Wide Web
Publication Type: Popular Publication
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/1/2017
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Proper comparison of the genetic merit of animals across breeds can be difficult and confusion for beef cattle producers. With the advent of a new genetic evaluation system where several breeds are evaluated in the same genetic analysis, confusion on direct comparison of animals across breeds has increased. This document explains that proper comparisons can only be made using across-breed adjustment factors as derived yearly using data from the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center.