EPD Archives - Canadian Cattlemen

University of Guelph students at the Canadian Angus Association office learning about the economic selection index.

Economic selection index streamlines seedstock cattle choices

By Carmen White November 14, 2022

The Alberta Bound Beef trip took 45 University of Guelph undergraduate agriculture students to Alberta for six days of beef industry learning. On one of these informative days, our group was hosted by the Canadian Angus Association, with a morning filled with presentations, discussion circles and learning. Dr. Kajal Devani, who is the director of […] Read more

EPD percentiles graph: A graph of an animal’s EPD percentiles is included along with the report, something several breed associations offer. This visual representation shows how the individual’s EPDs compare to the breed average, which is denoted by the line at the 50 per cent mark. (See more below)

Features, Livestock

EPDs: Inside the numbers

Breaking down a real-life EPD report to understand how to evaluate and apply genetic predictions

By Piper Whelan June 23, 2021

Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) predict the average performance of an animal’s future progeny for a specific trait, compared to other individuals’ progeny within the breed. They predict average group performance, rather than foretelling individual performance. “If you have a bull with a weaning weight EPD of +50 and another one with a weaning weight EPD […] Read more

Beef Cattle, Features

Canada’s First Look at Residual Feed Intake EPDs

By Debbie Furber April 8, 2015

Canadian Hereford breeders have long believed in the breed’s feed efficiency and now they’re collecting the numbers to back up that claim. Exceptional breeder participation in the Canadian Hereford Association’s (CHA) residual feed intake (RFI) research project has led to Canada’s first-ever expected progeny differences (EPD) for RFI and a related trait called residual intake […] Read more

Calving, Features

Five steps to a successful calving season

Preparations in advance makes calving season both easier on you and your herd

By Sean Mcgrath February 26, 2015

Calving season is an exciting time of year in most operations. It is exciting to see new calves hitting the ground, but it can also be exciting in more of a pending emergency sort of way. Most herds that have successful, low-drama calving seasons have several things in common, regardless of their calving season, most […] Read more

Beef Cattle

Revising the bull pen

By Kris Ringwall, NDSU Extension Service December 23, 2014

Each year, the Dickinson Research Extension Center reviews the bulls from the previous year to cut back on what bulls need to be overwintered. Because the bulls are bought based on their ability to transmit the right genes into the cow herd, their expected progeny difference (EPD) values already have stood the evaluation tests of when they were purchased. […] Read more

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Economic selection index streamlines seedstock cattle choices

EPDs: Inside the numbers

Canada’s First Look at Residual Feed Intake EPDs

Five steps to a successful calving season

Revising the bull pen

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