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18th Annual Bull Sale Wilde Angus Ranch 2
Powerful information to help
accelerate genetic improvement.
Sire prospects and herd sires
With GE-EPDs powered by HD 50K, you can more dependably identify:
• Sires to use extensively, strategically or sparingly, based on your breeding objectives
• Genetically superior young sires to accelerate genetic improvement
• Calving-ease sires for use on replacement heifers
• Sires more likely to produce more productive replacement females
• Sires that excel in feedlot growth, efficiency and carcass merit
Replacement heifers and donor prospects
GE-EPDs powered by HD 50K enable:
• More accurate and complete evaluation of genetic strengths and weaknesses in
females at an earlier age, for a lifetime of wiser mating decisions
• Predilection of genetic merit in females with reliabilities equivalent to more than a
lifetime of natural calf production
• Reduced risk associated with embryo transfer (ET) production through more informed
donor selection
ET progeny
The addition of HD 50K data to EPDs helps you:
• Determine the differences in genetic merit among
ET full siblings at a young age and independent of
recipient dam effects
• Make more informed selection, mating and marketing
decisions about ET calves
Traits with HD 50K
genomic predictions
Production
• Calving ease direct
• Birth weight
• Weaning weight
• Yearling weight
• Yearling height
• Mature weight
• Mature height
• Dry matter intake
• Residual feed intake
• Scrotal circumference
• Docility
Maternal
• Calving ease maternal
• Milking ability
Carcass
• Carcass weight
• Fat thickness
• Ribeye area
• Marbling score
• Tenderness