Genetics & Performance

Don’t Take Your Ultrasound Technician Off Speed Dial

     DNA. DNA. DNA. Everywhere you turn these days talk in the beef industry is about DNA. The Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) centered its annual convention this past summer on the role of genomics in improving selection tools. And even the lowliest cowpoke knows what a SNP, or “snip” is.     It’s enough to make one wonder if ultrasound technology is obsolete.     But according to Bill Bowman, Director of Performance Programs for the American Angus Association, which recently began releasing genomic-enhanced EPDs, that won’t be the case any time soon....

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