Document Type
Report
Report Number
A.S. Series 75-47
Publication Date
1975
Summary
Crossbreeding offers beef producers opportunities to utilize heterosis in lowly heritable traits and to utilize the benefits of selection in highly heritable traits. Selection benefits can be gained through selection of individual breeding animals on their own performance as well as through selection of breeds to be used in the crossbreeding system on the basis of their highly heritable strong points. Dearborn (1969) summarized available research information for breed comparisons up to that time and his table and references are included in the appendix. The purpose of this paper is to update that report and present results of published experiments from 1970 through 1974.
Number of Pages
11
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota State University
Rights
Copyright © 1975 South Dakota State University
Recommended Citation
Marshall, D. A. and Dinkel, C. A., "Recent Research Reuslts in Breed Evaluation" (1975). South Dakota Cow-Calf Field Day Proceedings, 1975. 10.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sd_cow-calf_1975/10