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 October 3, 2004

Changes for November

 Evaluation system
  • Interbull longevity evaluations

Editing system

  February 2005 Base change Base change documentation

September 7, 2004 Vacancy Announcement  Animal Scientist

 July 30, 2004 Presentations Update  ADSA Annual Meeting Presentations

May 6, 2004 Changes for May Evaluation system
  • New variances for Jersey and and Brown Swiss type
  • Jersey Interbull type evaluations
Editing system
  Documentation update Estimating daily yields when not all milkings are weighed and sampled

February 3, 2004 Changes for February Evaluation system
  • Pregnancy rate excludes embryo donors

October 10, 2003 Changes for November Evaluation system
  • Earlier evaluation of daughter pregnancy rate
  • Fertility and calving ease in prediction of productive life
  • Measure of pedigree completeness

July 11 & 17,
August 8, 2003
Changes for August Evaluation system
  • Fertility and calving ease in Net Merit
Editing system
Delivery system 

July 1, 2003 Presentations Update ADSA Annual Meeting Presentations

June 2, 2003 Proposed NM$ Lifetime Net Merit -- 2003 revision

May 5, 2003 Changes for May Evaluation system
  • New variances for type traits
  • Parent averages for Net Merit $ and daughter pregnancy rate
Editing system

March 14,
2003
2003 Annual Reports

2002 DHI Statistics:
Somatic cell counts of milk from DHI herds during 2002
State and National Standardized Lactation Averages by Breed for Cows Calving in 2001

Presentations Update NDHIA Annual Meeting and Interbull Technical Workshop Presentations

February 14,
2003
2002 Annual Reports 2003 DHI Statistics:
DHI Participation as of January 1, 2003
USDA Summary of 2003 Herd Averages
DRPC Activity Summary as of January 1, 2003

February 10,
2003
Changes for February Changes to the evaluation system
  • Introduction of daughter pregnancy rate (DPR) evaluations
  • Changes in type evaluations for Non-Holstein breeds

January 27,
2003
News Release Preliminary Evaluation of Daughter Pregnancy Rate
Fertility Test File Format 105 data including Daughter Pregnancy Rate
Record length = 336 (bytes 337-358 will be added in May)

December 10,
2002
Fertility Evaluations Daughter Pregnancy Rate

October 22,
2002
Presentations Update NAAB IMC/IP Presentations

August 30,
2002
Presentations Update 7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production

August 1,
2002
Additional Change for August Correlations between productive life and yield reduced

June 26,
2002
Changes for August Changes to the evaluation system
  • Sire-maternal grandsire threshold model for calving ease
  • Adjustment for heterogeneous variance in genetic evaluation of type traits
Changes to the editing system
Changes in the delivery system


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