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Date Subject Page detail
August 10, 2009 Changes for August 2009 Evaluation system
  • Brown Swiss genomic evaluations
  • Revised marker set used in genomic predictions
  • Blending of genomic and current Interbull evaluations
  Genetic base changes for January 2010
(proposed)		 Genetic base changes for January 2010
April 6, 2009 Changes for April 2009 Evaluation system
  • Revisions to genomic calculations
January 22, 2009 Changes for January 2009
(update)		 Evaluation system
  • Genomic evaluations become official
  • Multitrait best prediction
  • Cow and heifer conception rates
December 9, 2008 Changes for January 2009




AIPL Centennial Celebration
 Evaluation system
  • Genomic evaluations become official
  • Multitrait best prediction
  • Cow and heifer conception rates

Agenda with links to presentations and notes
AIPL history
August 14, 2008 AIPL Centennial Celebration
October 28, 2008		 Announcement
Registration form
Hotel information
July 24, 2008 Changes for August 2008
 Evaluation system
  • Service sire conception rate
  • Genetic evaluations for clones
  • More traits of foreign sires used in cow evaluations
  • Reporting genetic recessive codes
April 2, 2008 Changes for April 2008
(update)		 Evaluation system
  • Genomic prediction
January 12, 2008 Changes for January 2008
(update)		 Evaluation system
  • New evaluation schedule
  • Interbull fertility evaluations for breeds other than Holstein
  • Interbull evaluations on Milking Shorthorn base
  • Jersey, Brown Swiss, and Guernsey conformation composites
December 5, 2007 Service-sire fertility evaluation Announcement
November 21, 2007 Interim evaluations for progeny-test bulls Announcement
August 9, 2007 Changes for August 2007 Evaluation system
  • Breed composition file for crossbreds
  • Adjustments to all-breed model
  • Parent averages for young bulls
  • Revised definition of Interbull type-of-proof code
Editing system
  • Correction of bull identification (ID) numbers with more than nine digits
May 1, 2007 Changes for May 2007 (final) Evaluation system
  • All-breed animal model
  • Genetic trend for daughter pregnancy rate
  • Genetic trends for calving ease and stillbirth
  • Revisions to herd variance adjustment
  • Sample population for expected future inbreeding
  All-breed evaluation implementation All-breed evaluation
January 11, 2007 Changes for February 2007 (update) Evaluation system
  • Fertility evaluations from Interbull (updated January 18, 2007)
  • Elimination of duplicate evaluations for Red-and-White bulls and related format-38 changes
Editing system
  • Consistency in reporting abortions
  • Designation of breedings with sexed semen (updated January 26, 2007)
November 9, 2006 Changes for November 2006 Evaluation system
  • Holstein stillbirth and Brown Swiss calving-ease evaluations from Interbull
  • Ayrshire and Red Dairy Cattle breed codes
  • Series-840 animal identification (ID) numbers
  • Additional release of yield evaluations for dairy goats
Editing system
  • Eliminating milk-component values when all cows have the same value
July 21 , 2006 Changes for August 2006 (update) Evaluation system
  • Productive life (PL) credits revised; examples of bull changes provided (updated January 31, 2007)
  • Stillbirth and calving ability
  • Lifetime net merit revised
  • Calving ease (CE) edits
  Net merit update (final) Net merit as a measure of lifetime profit: 2006 revision
April 14, 2006 Changes for May 2006 Evaluation system
  • Bull fertility evaluation transferred to AIPL
  • Milking speed evaluations for Brown Swiss
  • Rear legs/rear view evaluations for Brown Swiss and Guernseys
March 1, 2006 2006 annual reports 2005 DHI statistics
February 9, 2006 Changes for February 2006 Evaluation system
  • Daughter pregnancy rate (DPR) for foreign bulls

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