Abstract
A survey of 312 commercial cattle producers was conducted to determine the relative importance of selection criteria used in buying bulls. Calving ease was a major consideration of a high percentage of producers, and individual performance was being emphasized more than expected progeny differences (EPDs). Only 23% of the producers included EPDs in their first three selection criteria. Visual appraisal focused on structural soundness, length, and muscling.
Keywords: Cattlemen's Day, 1994, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution, no. 94-373-S, Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service), 704, Beef, Bulls, Selection, Breeding, Expected progeny differences
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Simms, D., Geske, J. & Bolze, R., (1994) “Commercial cattle producers: bull selection criteria”, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports 1(1), 57-60. doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2378-5977.2060
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