August 2022 NEWSLETTER from the UGA Beef Team <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Making EPDs Understandable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jason Duggin, Dylan Davis, and Pedro Fontes<\/strong> \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Expected progeny differences (EPD) are essential tools in the beef industry. Thus, it is important to understand their basic usage in beef herds. By utilizing the following key steps, EPDs can be readily understood. Let\u2019s overview the following three steps to better understand how to use them effectively. READ MORE<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pedro Fontes, Ph.D.<\/strong> \u2013 Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist <\/p>\n\n\n\n There has been a remarkable increase in beef semen sales over the last few years. While artificial insemination (AI) is a powerful tool that has really helped the beef industry make genetic progress, this increase in beef semen sales not necessarily reflects an increase in the adoption of AI by beef cattle producers in the U.S. If this is the case, what is driving this increase in beef semen sales? This article evaluates some of the potential drivers of the current increase in beef semen sales. READ MORE<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 2022 NEWSLETTER from the UGA Beef Team Making EPDs Understandable Jason Duggin, Dylan Davis, and Pedro Fontes \u2013 Expected progeny differences (EPD) are essential tools in the beef industry. Thus, it is important to understand their basic usage in beef herds. By utilizing the following key steps, EPDs can be readily understood. Let\u2019s overview the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beef-cattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4808,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where is all that beef semen going?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n