Research breeding values

27 January 2015
Focus area: Food safety
Program stream: Growth and global competitiveness
Genetics play a significant role in productivity and profitability. Recent research has shown many carcase traits are moderately to highly heritable and provide good opportunities to improve lamb.

Australian Sheep Breeding Values (ASBV) are an estimate of an animal’s true breeding value based on pedigree, genomic and performance-recorded information for a range of traits.

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