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Genetic evaluations available from AIPL
Internet animal queries ||
Dairy cattle summaries, tables, lists ||
Dairy goat data tables, lists ||
Evaluation files ||
Interim summary files
For detailed information about evaluations including schedules, data exchange formats, and explanation of evaluation calculations,
please refer to the Documentations page.
Evaluations available on the AIPL internet site
Dairy cattle evaluation summaries, tables, and lists
Available prior to release day:
- Comparison of active AI bull evaluations between this evaluation and the previous release
- Percentile tables of net merit (NM$), fluid merit (FM$), and cheese merit (CM$)
for bulls and NM$ for cows by breed
- Elite cow statistics
- Breed means, bases, and heterosis
- Genetic and phenotypic trend (1960 to present) by breed for milk, fat, protein,
productive life (PL), somatic cell score (SCS), daughter pregnancy rate (DPR),
calving ease, and stillbirth
- Genetic marker effects from genomic prediction
Available at noon on release day:
Available at 1 pm Eastern time on the Thursday following release day:
- Inbreeding information by breed including:
- Inbreeding coefficients and trends
- Bulls most related to breed
- Bulls least related to breed (outcrosses)
Dairy goat data tables and lists
Goat yield evaluations are updated in July; type evaluations are updated in January
Evaluation files
Bulls ·
Cows ·
Herd info ·
Goats
Bull and cow evaluation files are available for download at 1 pm on the Monday before release but are password protected
to allow for download prior to official release
The password for unencrypting the files is available to the public at 7 am
on the day of release. See the evaluation schedule for the complete listing of evaluation
availability times. A complete description of evaluation distribution is also available.
A mirror site with copies of the evaluation files is available from Dairy Records Management Systems (ftp://ftp.drpc.ncsu.edu).
Official bull evaluation files
(ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
Format 38
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File name1 |
Records (no.) |
File size (bytes) |
Date |
Bulls included* |
38alloff.zip |
283,605
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36,888,117
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Aug 20 2009
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All domestic and foreign bulls with official evaluations |
38coff.zip |
56,299
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7,038,481
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Aug 18 2009
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All bulls except Holsteins and Red & Whites |
38off.zip |
180,094
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26,630,056
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Aug 20 2009
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Bulls with U.S. daughters OR enrolled with the National Association of Animal Breeders (NAAB) |
38ai.zip |
68,921
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10,571,555
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Aug 20 2009
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All bulls enrolled with NAAB |
38s.zip |
3,434
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575,331
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Aug 18 2009
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Bulls enrolled with NAAB, likely to have semen available |
*The status code of bulls that had been
active (A) status after the preceding evaluation are set to
inactive (I) status and the status code of bulls that had been genomically tested (G)
status is set to multiherd sampled (P) status because AI status is updated by NAAB after evaluations are released.
The status updates are provided in a separate file (status
of AI bulls) by NAAB by the Thurday following each evaluation release. This text file includes the ID
and status code of all bulls with a status of active (A); foreign-sampled, semen available (F);
genomically tested that will be marketed (G); or limited use (L).
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Official bull evaluation files for cow and heifer conception rates
(ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
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File name1 |
Records (no.) |
File size (bytes) |
Date |
Bulls included* |
CRalloff.zip |
44,940
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1,325,968
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Aug 18 2009
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All domestic and foreign bulls with official evaluations |
Nonofficial bull evaluation files2
(ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
Format 38
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File name1 |
Records (no.) |
File size (bytes) |
Date |
Evaluations included* |
38usnoff.zip |
8,638
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1,127,971
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Aug 18 2009
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U.S.-only evaluations for bulls with official Interbull evaluations |
38ibnoff.zip |
26,905
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4,400,524
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Aug 18 2009
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Interbull evaluations for bulls with official U.S.-only evaluations |
38all.trad.zip |
180,092
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26,270,395
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Aug 18 2009
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U.S.-only traditional evaluations without genomics for all bulls |
*The status code of bulls that had been
active (A) status after the preceding evaluation are set to
inactive (I) status and the status code of bulls that had been genomically tested (G)
status is set to multiherd sampled (P) status because AI status is updated by NAAB after evaluations are released.
The status updates are provided in a separate file (status
of AI bulls) by NAAB by the Thurday following each evaluation release. This text file includes the ID
and status code of all bulls with a status of active (A); foreign-sampled, semen available (F);
genomically tested that will be marketed (G); or limited use (L).
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Interim summary files
(ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/bulls)
Format 38
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File Name1 |
Records (no.) |
File size (bytes) |
Date |
Summaries Included* |
38i.zip |
1,147
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72,340
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May 19 2009
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Interim summaries for progeny-test bulls |
38i.B07.xml |
1,147
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1,141,846
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Nov 21 2007
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Interim summaries for progeny-test bulls (XML) |
38i.B07.xls |
1,147
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539,136
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Nov 21 2007
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Interim summaries for progeny-test bulls (spreadsheet .xls) |
*Based on first-lactation records of cows in herds with progeny-test daughters during the latest 18 months. |
Official cow evaluation files
(ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/cows)
Format 105
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File name1 |
Records (no.) |
File size (bytes) |
Date |
Evaluations included |
105el.zip |
22,490
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2,637,023
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Aug 18 2009
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Evaluations for elite cows and high-ranking grades based on NM$ percentile |
105hi5.zip |
108,462
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12,900,713
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Aug 18 2009
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Evaluations for the top 5% of cows based on NM$ (registered and grade) |
Herd-owner names and addresses
(ftp://aipl.arsusda.gov/pub/cows)
Format 2
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File Name1 |
Records (no.) |
File size (bytes) |
Date |
Herds included |
2nel.zip |
4,153
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142,154
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Aug 18 2009
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Herds with elite cows and high-ranking grades based on NM$ percentile |
2nhi5.zip3 |
8,884
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288,254
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Aug 18 2009
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Herds for the top 5% of cows based on NM$ (registered and grade) |
1Compressed (zipped) files have .zip extension. Uncompressed files have
the extension .myy where m is the month (Nov=B) and yy the year of the
evaluation (e.g., B02 indicates November, 2002).
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2For bulls with both a U.S.-only and an Interbull evaluation available, the
Interbull evaluation is official if it includes data from an additional country
or if Interbull excludes U.S. data but has higher reliability than the U.S.-only
evaluation.
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3Password administered by National Dairy Herd Improvement Association.
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