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August 14, 2008 |
AIPL Centennial Celebration October 28, 2008 |
Announcement Registration form Hotel information |
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July 24, 2008 |
Changes for August 2008
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Evaluation system
- Service sire conception rate
- Genetic evaluations for clones
- More traits of foreign sires used in cow evaluations
- Reporting genetic recessive codes
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April 2, 2008 |
Changes for April 2008 (update) |
Evaluation system
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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
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December 5, 2007 |
Service-sire fertility evaluation |
Announcement |
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November 21, 2007 |
Interim evaluations for progeny-test bulls |
Announcement |
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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
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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
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All-breed evaluation implementation |
All-breed evaluation |
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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)
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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
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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
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Net merit update (final) |
Net merit as a measure of lifetime profit: 2006 revision |
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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
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March 1, 2006 |
2006 annual reports |
2005 DHI statistics
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February 9, 2006 |
Changes for February 2006 |
Evaluation system
- Daughter pregnancy rate (DPR) for foreign bulls
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