Source: Barbara Duckworth, Producer.com, December 28, 2017
REGINA — Keeping up with technology could be the biggest challenge facing purebred cattle breeders.
Genomically enhanced expected progeny differences, genetic databases and new algorithms are complicated and hard to understand but all are necessary to improve cattle and make better selection decisions, said Bob Weaber, cow-calf extension scientist at Kansas State University.
“There is getting to be a wider gap in knowledge between the seedstock producer, particularly the nucleus seedstock producers and the average commercial cattleman than there has ever been,” he said at the Simmental Federation of Americas conference held in Regina Nov. 21.
