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<blockquote data-quote="MO_cows" data-source="post: 713745" data-attributes="member: 9169"><p>HerefordSire, did you ever hear of the Canadian Livestock Records Corporation, or CLRC? They handle all the cattle breed registries for Canada and have done so for YEARS. If there was any value or feasibility to co-mingling the data from the different breeds, I think they would have done it by now. There is a similar situation in Australia. I have heard it called Breedplan and ABRI. If I have it right, they just do the performance end and provide data to the associations to include with the pedigrees. Yet another enterprise that is invested heavily into processing bovine performance data, yet they haven't co-mingled the breeds. There must be a reason - it's not feasible to do so.</p><p></p><p>Your train of thought on this concept does make me wonder why nobody has come up with a "calculator" program or some sort of computer widget to handle the across-breed EPD adjustment factors. So that anybody who wants to compare animals of different breeds can just plug in their breed code and EPD's to see them all adjusted and side by side; without manually doing the math and recording the sums to compare. So maybe you did have a great idea after all. Get somebody to write the software and I'll bet you could sell that. Or get Purina to sponsor it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MO_cows, post: 713745, member: 9169"] HerefordSire, did you ever hear of the Canadian Livestock Records Corporation, or CLRC? They handle all the cattle breed registries for Canada and have done so for YEARS. If there was any value or feasibility to co-mingling the data from the different breeds, I think they would have done it by now. There is a similar situation in Australia. I have heard it called Breedplan and ABRI. If I have it right, they just do the performance end and provide data to the associations to include with the pedigrees. Yet another enterprise that is invested heavily into processing bovine performance data, yet they haven't co-mingled the breeds. There must be a reason - it's not feasible to do so. Your train of thought on this concept does make me wonder why nobody has come up with a "calculator" program or some sort of computer widget to handle the across-breed EPD adjustment factors. So that anybody who wants to compare animals of different breeds can just plug in their breed code and EPD's to see them all adjusted and side by side; without manually doing the math and recording the sums to compare. So maybe you did have a great idea after all. Get somebody to write the software and I'll bet you could sell that. Or get Purina to sponsor it. [/QUOTE]
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