An integrated progeny test for the Australian Sheep Industry

Title
An integrated progeny test for the Australian Sheep Industry
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Banks, Robert
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7303-033X
Email: rbanks@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:rbanks
Van Der Werf, Julius Herman
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2512-1696
Email: jvanderw@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jvanderw
Gibson, John Paul
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0371-2401
Email: jgibson5@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jgibson5
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Massey University
Place of publication
Palmerston North, New Zealand
UNE publication id
une:9966
Abstract
The Australian sheep industry has made significant progress in its use of quantitative genetics technology since the late 1980's, beginning with the introduction of LAMBPLAN (Banks, 1994) and more recently MerinoSelect, both now delivered through Sheep Genetics Australia (SGA) which integrated several previous separate, smaller programs within Merinos (Brown, these proceedings). There has been steady growth in numbers of animals recorded on-farm within the terminal sire, dual-purpose and Merino gene pools, to the point where annual intakes of recorded animals are approximately 100,000, 25,000 and 100,000 animals respectively. Genetic progress has accelerated (Banks, 2005), most noticeably within terminal sires, where the rate of improvement in the index is 0.5 standard deviations per year, utilizing both within and across breed variation.
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Citation
Proceedings of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production, v.30.12, 2006, p. 1-4
Start page
1
End page
4

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