Date |
Subject |
Page Detail |
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October 3, 2004 |
Changes for November |
Evaluation system
- Interbull longevity evaluations
Editing system |
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February 2005 Base change |
Base change documentation |
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September 7, 2004 |
Vacancy Announcement |
Animal Scientist |
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July 30, 2004 |
Presentations Update |
ADSA Annual Meeting Presentations |
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May 6, 2004 |
Changes for May |
Evaluation system
- New variances for Jersey and and Brown Swiss type
- Jersey Interbull type evaluations
Editing system |
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Documentation update |
Estimating daily yields when not all milkings are weighed and sampled |
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February 3, 2004 |
Changes for February |
Evaluation system
- Pregnancy rate excludes embryo donors
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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
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July 11 & 17, August 8, 2003 |
Changes for August |
Evaluation system
- Fertility and calving ease in Net Merit
Editing system Delivery system |
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July 1, 2003 |
Presentations Update |
ADSA Annual Meeting Presentations |
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June 2, 2003 |
Proposed NM$ |
Lifetime Net Merit -- 2003 revision |
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May 5, 2003 |
Changes for May |
Evaluation system
- New variances for type traits
- Parent averages for Net Merit $ and daughter pregnancy rate
Editing system |
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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 |
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Presentations Update |
NDHIA Annual Meeting and Interbull Technical Workshop Presentations |
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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
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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
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January 27, 2003 |
News Release |
Preliminary Evaluation of Daughter Pregnancy Rate
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Fertility Test File |
Format 105 data including Daughter Pregnancy Rate Record length = 336 (bytes 337-358 will be added in May) |
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December 10, 2002 |
Fertility Evaluations |
Daughter Pregnancy Rate |
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October 22, 2002 |
Presentations Update |
NAAB IMC/IP Presentations |
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August 30, 2002 |
Presentations Update |
7th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production |
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August 1, 2002 |
Additional Change for August |
Correlations between productive life and yield reduced |
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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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