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<blockquote data-quote="Commercialfarmer" data-source="post: 1325460" data-attributes="member: 14544"><p>That's not true. There are plenty of agricultural professors that grew up on the family farm/ranch, and also have their own. The bank still requires the note to be paid for them the same as you. </p><p></p><p>In addition, you don't use a herd that is biased for research. A researcher that would use their own herd has obviously biased the situation by selecting cattle based on their pre-conceived ideas of what they believe to be productive. Which is why I find this thread ironic. From what I gather in the posts, you guys appear to be believe that heterosis is BS. But you have an extremely small sample size that you've biased based on your own selection decisions. There is nothing random about it. And to try to extrapolate that the hundred of thousands to millions of animal studied for the past approximately hundred of years can be represented by a seeing a single university's herd over a few year period of time is silly. Much research has been done with private herds. </p><p></p><p>Heterosis apparently has an effect across the board in every animal and plant species, except cattle? </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Four generations of pedigree is fairly in depth amount of data. 9,211 is a significant number of animals. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cross breeding may be a very poor choice for your operation. But to say heterosis effects aren't legitimate is absolutely wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Commercialfarmer, post: 1325460, member: 14544"] That's not true. There are plenty of agricultural professors that grew up on the family farm/ranch, and also have their own. The bank still requires the note to be paid for them the same as you. In addition, you don't use a herd that is biased for research. A researcher that would use their own herd has obviously biased the situation by selecting cattle based on their pre-conceived ideas of what they believe to be productive. Which is why I find this thread ironic. From what I gather in the posts, you guys appear to be believe that heterosis is BS. But you have an extremely small sample size that you've biased based on your own selection decisions. There is nothing random about it. And to try to extrapolate that the hundred of thousands to millions of animal studied for the past approximately hundred of years can be represented by a seeing a single university's herd over a few year period of time is silly. Much research has been done with private herds. Heterosis apparently has an effect across the board in every animal and plant species, except cattle? Four generations of pedigree is fairly in depth amount of data. 9,211 is a significant number of animals. Cross breeding may be a very poor choice for your operation. But to say heterosis effects aren't legitimate is absolutely wrong. [/QUOTE]
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