It’s in the Genes: Comparing Dairy Bulls’ Ability To Transmit Traits to Their Daughters
Whitt, Christine
2020

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Dairy bulls pass on different genetic traits to their daughters. Certain traits, like high fat content, can influence how much milk revenue a daughter produces in her lifetime. USDA’s Economic Research Service and Cornell University researchers used 2017 trait data from a dataset of more than 400 Holstein bulls to estimate the technical, revenue, allocative, and profit efficiency of each bull relative to its peers.

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Title It’s in the Genes: Comparing Dairy Bulls’ Ability To Transmit Traits to Their Daughters
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Author(s) Whitt, Christine
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Issue Date Mar 02 2020
Publication Type Journal Article
DOI and Other Identifiers 10.22004/ag.econ.302917
Record Identifier https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/302917
ISSN 1545-8741
Language English
Published in Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America
Volume March 2020
Issue 02
Record Appears in United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) > Economic Research Service > Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America

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